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AMERICAN HISTORY & CULTURE
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The Revolution
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff. Paperback. Oxford University Press.
A History of the American Revolution by John Richard Alden. Da Capo Press, New York. Alden was one of the 18th Century's preeminent historians.
Men in Rebellion: Higher Governmental Leaders and the Coming of the American Revolution by James Kirby Martin. Hardcover. Rutgers University Press, NJ (June 1973). Ships within 4-6 weeks; Amazon.com will notify in 2-3 weeks if having trouble locating this book.
Patriots:
The Men Who Started the American Revolution by A. J. Langguth. Paperback.
Reprint edition (March 1989), Touchstone Books.
The Social Structure of Revolutionary America by Jackson Turner Main. This title is out of print and no longer available from the publisher, but Amazon.com will query its network of used bookstores and send an update within one to two weeks.
Cockpit of the Revolution; The War for Independence in New Jersey by Charles Leonard Lundin. New Jersey's pivotal role in the Revolution. This title is out of print and NO LONGER AVAILABLE from the publisher, but Amazon.com will query its network of used bookstores and send an update within one to two weeks.
The Forgotten Victory - The Battle for New Jersey, 1780 by Thomas J. Fleming. Readers Digest Press, NY (1973). This title is out of print and no longer available from the publisher, but Amazon.com will query its network of used bookstores and reply within one to two weeks.
America in So Many Words
The
Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane. $2.39. Paperback Reissue edition
(July 1997) Tor Books. Acerbic, irritable, sarcastic, cynical, but with a weakness
for the grandiose. Stephen could be a member of one of the old Essex County
families; he was born at 14 Mulberry Place, Newark, NJ on Nov. 1, 1871, his
father, Jonathan Townley Crane, a Methodist minister.
The Forest and The Fort: City in the Dawn by Hervey Allen. A novel about Americans moving west after the Revolution, when Pittsburgh was a rustic fort and the frontier meant Pennsylvania and Ohio. This title is out of print and no longer available from the publisher, but Amazon.com will query its network of used bookstores and send an update within one to two weeks.
Drums Along The Mohawk by Walter D. Edmonds. Paperback. A young couple battle the British, the Indians, and the weather, along the Mohawk River in New York State.
Son of the Middle Border by Hamlin Garland. Paperback. Reprint edition (February 1995) Penguin USA.
Through the Pages of History
Mayflower:
A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Team
of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
The Way West
The Big Sky by Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr. Paperback. Houghton Mifflin Co. From the Publisher: The Big Sky is the first of A.B. Guthrie's epic adventure novels of America's vast frontier.
The
Journals of Lewis and Clark by Meriwether Lewis, Bernard Devoto (Editor),
William Clark, ber de Voto, Bernard De Voto, Stephen E. Ambrose. Paperback.
Houghton Mifflin Co. Revised edition (April 1997). Cover copy: "These journals
are a national literary treasure . . . What you get from DeVoto is the heart
of the story, without sacrificing any of the narrative or much of the natural
history . . . It is the ideal selection for the citizen-reader, an American
classic in its own right, a book that will be read as long as the Republic lasts."
-- from the Foreword by Stephen E. Ambrose, author of Undaunted Courage.
(William Clark was not a relative of the Richard Clark family.)
The Way West by Alfred Bertram Guthrie, Jr. Paperback. Reissue edition (March 1993). Houghton Mifflin Co. The Pulitzer Prize winning book, first published in 1949, by the former newspaperman and author of The Big Sky, The Way West "is what the historical novel should be, but so seldom is" -- Sterling North
Political & Economic Issues
The Anti-Federalists: Critics of the Constitution, 1781-1788 by Jackson Turner Main. $9.56.Paperback. W.W. Norton & Company (December 1974).
Arguing About Slavery: John Quincy Adams and the Great Battle in the United States Congress by William Lee Miller. $13.60. Paperback. 1 Vintage edition (January 1998) Vintage Books.
An Empire Wilderness: Travels into America's Future by Robert D. Kaplan $16.50. Hardcover. 1 edition (September 1998) Random House.
The First Republicans: Political Philosophy & Public Policy in the Party of Jefferson & Madison by Stuart Gerry Brown. $45. Hardcover. Greenwood Publishing Co. (1954). Ships within 4-6 weeks; Amazon.com will notify in 2-3 weeks if having trouble locating this book.
From Parchment to Power: How James Madison Used the Bill of Rights to Save the Constitution by Robert A. Goldwin. Paperback. Availability: On Order; usually ships within 1-2 weeks. 1st edition (March 1998) AEI Press.
The Good City and The Good Life: Renewing the American Community by Daniel Kemmis. Hardcover (October 1995) Houghton Mifflin Co.
Jefferson & Madison: The Great Collaboration by Adrienne Koch. Alfred A. Knopf, New York (1964). Another good book out of print. Amazon.com will query its network of used bookstores and send an update within one to two weeks.
Patriotism in America: A Study of Changing Devotions, 1770-1970 by John J. Pullen. Hardcover. American Heritage Press, NY (1971). A rather extraordinary book by an author sensitive to the diversity of the American people and what they consider patriotic. Among the points of conflict: the Mexican War (which Congressman Abe Lincoln opposed), the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and taking control of the Philippines. Much of the book is devoted to the Vietnam War. This title is out of print and no longer available from the publisher, but Amazon.com will query its network of used bookstores and send an update within one to two weeks.
The Pursuit of Equality in American History (A Centennial Book) by J. R. Pole. Hardcover. 2nd/Rev edition (May 1993) University of California Press, Berkeley, CA.
Abraham Clark
Abraham Clark & The Quest for Equality in the Revolutionary Era, 1774-1794 by Ruth Bogin. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press (1982). $30. Hardcover. A masterful study of the struggle for political and economic equality during the Revolution, from the point of view of Abraham Clark, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence from New Jersey. This boook is NO LONGER AVAILABLE, but it is possible to search for used copies. Some parts of this book are quoted on this website: see Legacy of Abraham Clark
