Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty
10 best books like Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty (Dumas Malone): Andrew Jackson: The Course of American Empire, 1767-1821, John Adams: A Life, Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department, The Contours of American History, Samuel Johnson, Washington, Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution, Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation, Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation: A Biography, Thomas Jefferson: A Life
| Author | Robert V. Remini |
| ISBN | 0801859115 |
Available in paperback for the first time, these three volumes represent the definitive biography of Andrew Jackson. Volume One covers the role Jackson played in America's territorial expansion, bringing to life a complex character who has often been seen simply as a rough-hewn country general....
| Author | John Ferling |
| ISBN | 0805045767 |
John Ferling's masterful John Adams: A Life is the most comprehensive single-volume biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times. Drawing on extensive research, Ferling depicts a reluctant revolutionary,...
| Author | Dean Acheson |
| ISBN | 0393304124 |
Acheson (1893–1971) was not only present at the creation of the postwar world, he was one of its chief architects. He joined the Department of State in 1941 as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs and, with brief intermissions, was continuously involved until 1953, when he left office...
| Author | William Appleman Williams |
| ISBN | 0393305619 |
William Appleman Williams was one of America’s greatest critics of US imperialism. The Contours of American History, first published in 1961, reached back to seventeenth-century British history to argue that the relationship between liberalism and empire was in effect a grand compromise, with...
| Author | Walter Jackson Bate |
| ISBN | 1887178767 |
W. Jackson Bate's Samuel Johnson has been hailed as a supreme example of the biographer's art and the first great modern life of Johnson. Bate's work is literary biography at its finest, delving into the character that formed Johnson's awesome intellect and fueled his prodigious output. When first...
| Author | Douglas Southall Freeman |
| ISBN | 0684826372 |
"Freeman's treatment of Washington as a Commander in Chief is virtually definitive" (The New York Times Book Review).
Washington is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and military historian Douglas Southall...
| Author | Richard Brookhiser |
| ISBN | 0743223799 |
Since 1996, Richard Brookhiser has devoted himself to recovering the Founding for modern Americans. The creators of our democracy had both the temptations and the shortcomings of all men, combined with the talents and idealism of the truly great. Among them, no Founding Father demonstrates the combination...
Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation
| Author | Richard Norton Smith |
| ISBN | 0395855128 |
Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation is a book about George Washington that follows a unique formula. For this book is about President George Washington as opposed to General George Washington. The purpose is to give readers and understanding in early constitutional government...
| Author | Merrill D. Peterson |
| ISBN | 0195019091 |
The definitive life of Jefferson in one volume, this biography relates Jefferson's private life and thought to his prominent public position and reveals the rich complexity of his development. As Peterson explores the dominant themes guiding Jefferson's career--democracy, nationality, and...
| Author | Willard Sterne Randall |
| ISBN | 0060976179 |
Combining firsthand scholarship and material drawn from the Jefferson Papers, Willard Sterne Randall calls on his skills as an investigative journalist to challenge long-held assumptions about the reasoning, motives, and works of this sage, philosopher, politician, and romantic. Exploring...
In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson
| Author | Noble E. Cunningham Jr. |
| ISBN | 0345353803 |
"A major contribution." Washington Post
The authoritative single-volume biography of Thomas Jefferson, perhaps the most significant figure in American history. He was a complex and compelling man: a fervent advocate of democracy who enjoyed the life of a southern aristocrat and owned slaves,...
| Author | Garry Wills |
| ISBN | 0786261196 |
In "Negro President," the best-selling historian Garry Wills explores a controversial and neglected aspect of Thomas Jefferson's presidency: it was achieved by virtue of slave "representation," and conducted to preserve that advantage.
Wills goes far beyond the recent revisionist...
Andrew Johnson: A Biography
| Author | Hans L. Trefousse |
| ISBN | 0393317420 |
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“Andrew Johnson: A Biography” by Hans Trefousse was published in 1989. Trefousse was a historian, author and professor at Brooklyn College for several decades. He was considered a dean of the Reconstruction era and authored nearly a dozen...
| Author | Harry Ammon |
| ISBN | 0813912660 |
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“James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity” by Harry Ammon was originally published in 1971, making it the oldest of the well-read biographies of our fifth president (though this is not a particularly crowded field). Ammon is formerly...
| Author | Kevin J. Hayes |
| ISBN | 0195307585 |
Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And yet there has never been a literary life...
| Author | Philip Shriver Klein |
| ISBN | 0945707118 |
The life of James Buchanan is in essence the story of a man who declined to be a dictator. Republics are traditionally ungrateful, and in Buchanan's case the American republic has been notoriously thankless to the man who was, from log cabin to White House, the relentless foe of fanatics and demagogues;...
| Author | Alan Pell Crawford |
| ISBN | 1400060796 |
Much has been written about Thomas Jefferson, with good reason: His life was a great American drama–one of the greatest–played out in compelling acts. He was the architect of our democracy, a visionary chief executive who expanded this nation’s physical boundaries to unimagined lengths....
| Author | Robert Dallek |
| ISBN | 0195054350 |
Like other great figures of 20th-century American politics, Lyndon Johnson defies easy understanding. An unrivaled master of vote swapping, back room deals, and election-day skulduggery, he was nevertheless an outspoken New Dealer with a genuine commitment to the poor and the underprivileged....
| Author | Andrew Burstein |
| ISBN | 0465008135 |
When Thomas Jefferson died on July 4, 1826, he left behind a series of mysteries that have captured the imaginations of historical investigators for generations. In Jefferson's Secrets, Andrew Burstein draws on sources previous biographers have glossed over or missed entirely. Beginning with...
| Author | Allan Peskin |
| ISBN | 0873382102 |
This first full-scale biography of our twentieth president in over fifty years reflects not only a renewal of interest in Garfield the man as the centennial of his inauguration nears, but in the Gilded Age of American politics in which he played so influential a role. Moving from the battlefield to Congress...
| Author | Harlow Giles Unger |
| ISBN | 0471468851 |
Acclaim for Lafayette
"I found Mr. Unger's book exceptionally well done. It's an admirable account of the marquis's two revolutions-one might even say his two lives-the French and the American. It also captures the private Lafayette and his remarkable wife, Adrienne, in often moving detail."...
| Author | Peter A. Wallner |
| ISBN | 0975521616 |
Well-researched if perhaps overly complimentary, this book does a good job of answering one of the questions that most interests me about presidents: why were they elected in the first place?
Pierce is presented as a moderate in this book, who was looking constantly for a way to secure first...
The Life and Selected Writings
| Author | Thomas Jefferson |
| ISBN | 0375752188 |
Copywright 1944, with Koch and Peden as the primary editors, my copy is also graced with a hand-typed glue in card made by Freda H. Barton stating how Judy Barton bought the book in her first year of college at the University of Texas in Austin. Freda states how she would never buy a book published by Random...
