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"Hamilton's turbulent life, the dramatic birth of a nation, all against the richly evoked gritty background of the 18th century--Randall's book is propelled with the page-turning intensity of an epic novel." - Ronald Blumer, Peabody Award-winning writer
A new reissue of this important biography of Alexander Hamilton-arguably one of the most brilliant and complex of our nation's founders.
From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean...
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Though best known for his primary authorship of the Federalist Papers, his death in a duel at the hands of Vice President Aaron Burr on the banks of the Hudson River and his star role in a 21st-century musical, it is often overlooked that Alexander Hamilton was instrumental in creating the key financial building blocks of the young United States of America.
The first incumbent of the office of secretary of the Treasury on September 11, 1789 (under...
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Summary of Ron Chernow's Alexander Hamilton is a sprawling biography of one of the most important figures in American history. It is based on copious original research, especially into Hamilton's early years. As a political theorist, a polemicist, and the first Treasury secretary, Hamilton dedicated his life, his intellect, and a seemingly limitless stream of words to the cause of unifying and strengthening the United States. He did perhaps more than...
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Get the Summary of Philip Freeman's Alexander the Great in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "Alexander the Great" by Philip Freeman is a comprehensive biography that chronicles the life and legacy of one of history's most iconic figures. Born in 356 B.C. during the 106th Olympic games, Alexander was the son of King Philip II of Macedonia and his wife Olympias. Despite Macedonia's cultural and geographical separation...
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A much afeared Portsmouth pirate ship, frozen in an arctic storm 300 years ago, has melted due to global warming and is now running amok. What's the connection to the disappearance of the young Alexander and the goblins from the Old Book Shop in Petersfield who were supposed to be watching over him? Alexander's Mum takes on the goblin search. Book 2 in the Alexander goblinsearch stories can be enjoyed without reading book 1.
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Während in Paris die Revolution tobt, die Menschenrechte ausgerufen werden und der
Sturm auf Versailles stattfindet, reisen der zwanzigjährige Alexander von Humboldt
und sein Freund Steven Jan van Geuns (22) im Herbst 1789 sechs Wochen lang
durch Deutschland. Während der letzte große Universalgelehrte Europas naturhistorische Interessen verfolgte, war sein Freund, der junge Arzt van Geuns, neben der Wissenschaft an
Land und Leuten, kuriosen Persönlichkeiten...
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Get the Summary of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The New Jim Crow" by Michelle Alexander explores the evolution of racial caste in America, particularly focusing on the transition from explicit systems of segregation to more covert mechanisms of racial control. The book traces the historical lineage from slavery to the Jim Crow laws, and ultimately to the modern criminal...
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Summary of Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow argues that the ongoing "War on Drugs" and the resulting mass incarceration of African Americans is the moral equivalent of Jim Crow. Beginning in the seventeenth century, institutions emerged in colonial America that contributed to the creation of a racial caste system…
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