Abridgment of ... [his] History of His Life and Times
Author : Richard Baxter
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Page : 912 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 1713
Category : Church and state
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Author : Richard Baxter
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Page : 912 pages
File Size : 22,56 MB
Release : 1713
Category : Church and state
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Author : Ari Berk
Publisher : Candlewick Press
Page : 17 pages
File Size : 11,17 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0763647942
Describes Shakespeare's experiences in London and his retirement to the country in a fictional account that includes excerpts from his works.
Author : Richard Baxter
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Page : 902 pages
File Size : 22,43 MB
Release : 1713
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Author : Richard BAXTER
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Page : 812 pages
File Size : 30,28 MB
Release : 1702
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Author : Willard Sterne Randall
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 651 pages
File Size : 30,72 MB
Release : 2011-08-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0393082288
The long-awaited biography of the frontier Founding Father whose heroic actions and neglected writings inspired an entire generation from Paine to Madison. On May 10, 1775, in the storm-tossed hours after midnight, Ethan Allen, the Revolutionary firebrand, was poised for attack. With only two boatloads of his scraggly band of Vermont volunteers having made it across the wind-whipped waters of Lake Champlain, he was waiting for the rest of his Green Mountain boys to arrive. But with the protective darkness quickly fading, Allen determined that he hold off no longer. While Ethan Allen, a canonical hero of the American Revolution, has always been defined by his daring, predawn attack on the British-controlled Fort Ticonderoga, Willard Sterne Randall, the author of Benedict Arnold, now challenges our conventional understanding of this largely unexamined Founding Father. Widening the scope of his inquiry beyond the Revolutionary War, Randall traces Allen’s beginning back to his modest origins in Connecticut, where he was born in 1738. Largely self-educated, emerging from a relatively impoverished background, Allen demonstrated his deeply rebellious nature early on through his attraction to Deism, his dramatic defense of smallpox vaccinations, and his early support of separation of church and state. Chronicling Allen’s upward struggle from precocious, if not unruly, adolescent to commander of the largest American paramilitary force on the eve of the Revolution, Randall unlocks a trove of new source material, particularly evident in his gripping portrait of Allen as a British prisoner-of-war. While the biography reacquaints readers with the familiar details of Allen’s life—his capture during the aborted American invasion of Canada, his philosophical works that influenced Thomas Paine, his seminal role in gaining Vermont statehood, his stirring funeral in 1789—Randall documents that so much of what we know of Allen is mere myth, historical folklore that people have handed down, as if Allen were Paul Bunyan. As Randall reveals, Ethan Allen, a so-called Robin Hood in the eyes of his dispossessed Green Mountain settlers, aggrandized, and unabashedly so, the holdings of his own family, a fact that is glossed over in previous accounts, embellishing his own best-selling prisoner-of-war narrative as well. He emerges not only as a public-spirited leader but as a self-interested individual, often no less rapacious than his archenemies, the New York land barons of the Hudson and Mohawk Valleys. As John E. Ferling comments, “Randall has stripped away the myths to provide as accurate an account of Allen’s life as will ever be written.” The keen insights that he produces shed new light, not only on this most enigmatic of Founding Fathers, but on today’s descendants of the Green Mountain Boys, whose own political disenfranchisement resonates now more than ever.
Author : Pierre Bayle
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Page : 734 pages
File Size : 21,14 MB
Release : 1736
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Author : Edmund Calamy
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Page : 582 pages
File Size : 27,29 MB
Release : 1829
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Author : Kippis
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Page : 750 pages
File Size : 41,30 MB
Release : 1784
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Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
Page : 650 pages
File Size : 16,30 MB
Release : 2006-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307278549
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist and New York Times bestselling author of The First American comes the first major single-volume biography in a decade of the president who defined American democracy • "A big, rich biography.” —The Boston Globe H. W. Brands reshapes our understanding of this fascinating man, and of the Age of Democracy that he ushered in. An orphan at a young age and without formal education or the family lineage of the Founding Fathers, Jackson showed that the presidency was not the exclusive province of the wealthy and the well-born but could truly be held by a man of the people. On a majestic, sweeping scale Brands re-creates Jackson’s rise from his hardscrabble roots to his days as frontier lawyer, then on to his heroic victory in the Battle of New Orleans, and finally to the White House. Capturing Jackson’s outsized life and deep impact on American history, Brands also explores his controversial actions, from his unapologetic expansionism to the disgraceful Trail of Tears. Look for H.W. Brands's other biographies: THE FIRST AMERICAN (Benjamin Franklin), THE MAN WHO SAVED THE UNION (Ulysses S. Grant), TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS (Franklin Roosevelt) and REAGAN.
Author : Harry Bristow Wilson
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Page : 770 pages
File Size : 27,40 MB
Release : 1814
Category : Education
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