Fiftieth Anniversary, 1864-1914
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Savings banks
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 22,3 MB
Release : 1914
Category : Savings banks
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Author : New York (N.Y.). Board of Aldermen. Special committee on two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of installation of first mayor and Board of aldermen
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Page : 78 pages
File Size : 35,95 MB
Release : 1915
Category : New York (N.Y.)
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Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 23,34 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 141657588X
Profiles John Adams, an influential patriot during the American Revolution who became the nation's first vice president and second president.
Author : Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Page : 88 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 1921
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Page : 452 pages
File Size : 17,19 MB
Release : 1961
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Author : Gordon S. Wood
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 530 pages
File Size : 23,6 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0735224714
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy's champion, was an aristocratic Southern slaveowner, while Adams, the overachiever from New England's rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist view of government. They worked closely in the crucible of revolution, crafting the Declaration of Independence and leading, with Franklin, the diplomatic effort that brought France into the fight. But ultimately, their profound differences would lead to a fundamental crisis, in their friendship and in the nation writ large, as they became the figureheads of two entirely new forces, the first American political parties. It was a bitter breach, lasting through the presidential administrations of both men, and beyond. But late in life, something remarkable happened: these two men were nudged into reconciliation. What started as a grudging trickle of correspondence became a great flood, and a friendship was rekindled, over the course of hundreds of letters. In their final years they were the last surviving founding fathers and cherished their role in this mighty young republic as it approached the half century mark in 1826. At last, on the afternoon of July 4th, 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration, Adams let out a sigh and said, At least Jefferson still lives. He died soon thereafter. In fact, a few hours earlier on that same day, far to the south in his home in Monticello, Jefferson died as well. Arguably no relationship in this country's history carries as much freight as that of John Adams of Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Gordon Wood has more than done justice to these entwined lives and their meaning; he has written a magnificent new addition to America's collective story.
Author : John Adams
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Page : 46 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 1776
Category : Constitutional history
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Author : Charles Francis Adams
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Page : 514 pages
File Size : 48,83 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Author : Clint Hill
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1476731519
Secret Service agent Clint Hill reveals the stories behind the iconic images of the five tragic days surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in this 60th anniversary edition of the New York Times bestseller. On November 22, 1963, three shots were fired in Dallas, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and the world stopped for four days. For an entire generation, it was the end of an age of innocence. That evening, a photo ran on the front pages of newspapers across the world, showing a Secret Service agent jumping on the back of the presidential limousine in a desperate attempt to protect the President and Mrs. Kennedy. That agent was Clint Hill. Now Hill commemorates the sixtieth anniversary of the tragedy with this stunning book containing more than 150 photos, each accompanied by his incomparable insider account of those terrible days. A story that has taken Hill half a century to tell, this is a “riveting, stunning narrative” (Herald & Review, Illinois) of personal and historical scope. Besides the unbearable grief of a nation and the monumental consequences of the event, the death of JFK was a personal blow to a man sworn to protect the first family, and who knew, from the moment the shots rang out in Dallas, that nothing would ever be the same.
Author : John T. Flynn
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 36,37 MB
Release : 1998
Category : United States
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