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The successful creation of the Constitution is a suspense story. This book takes us into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation. George Washington presided, James Madison kept the notes, Benjamin Franklin offered wisdom and humor at crucial times. At different points, more than half of the delegates threatened to walk out, and some actually did. It was...
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Pub. Date
2015.
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English
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"The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--brilliantly told--of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal...
24) The Constitution
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Publisher
Rourke Pub
Pub. Date
c2005
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IL: MG - BL: 7.4 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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Explains the formation of the United States Constitution, the people involved in getting it ratified, and how it changed government.
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English
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"An award-winning scholar uncovers Lincoln's strategy for abolishing slavery in this groundbreaking history of the sectional crisis and Civil War. Some celebrate Lincoln for freeing the slaves; others fault him for a long-standing conservatism on abolition and race. James Oakes gives us another option in this brilliant exploration of Lincoln and the end of slavery. Through the unforeseen challenges of the Civil War crisis, Lincoln and the Republican...
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English
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"From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how America's second generation of political giants--Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Calhoun--battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the shape of our democracy. In the early days of the nineteenth century, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning...
Publisher
Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands
Pub. Date
c2006
Edition
Widescreen
Language
English
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This documentary begins by introducing the Constitution and why it was created. It then examines key Constitutional concepts -- separation of powers and individual rights -- by focusing on two landmark cases: Youngstown v. Sawyer, a challenge to President Truman's decision to put the steel mills under government control, and Gideon v. Wainwright, in which the Supreme Court establishes the right to be represented by an attorney.
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Little Simon
Pub. Date
c2002.
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1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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It's 1787, and the Peanuts gang are in colonial Pennsylvania for the founding of the United States. Along with George Washington and John Hancock, they witness the birth of the Constitution and the creation of the government that makes our country unique. The gang has alot of reasons why they're proud to be Americans.
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The History Channel
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
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Volume 1 begins with a look at two of the many crises faced by George Washington during his term as America's first president. At a time when any conflict had the potential to dissolve the fragile union, Washington surrounded himself with brilliant men who were bound by their undying devotion to America, but who were often bitterly divided about how best to serve their common cause. Volume 2 explores the ideological conflict that existed between Thomas...
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