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James Madison by Richard Brookhiser
RRP: £13.99Booksplease Price: £13.91James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story,although all too often overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporaries,is integral to that of... -
Founding Father by Richard Brookhiser
Booksplease Price: £12.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684831428Author Rich BrookhiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Prentice Hall & IBDPublisher... -
Alexander Hamilton, American Tpb by Richard Brookhiser
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684863313Author BROOKHISERPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
What Would the Founders Do? by Richard Brookhiser 9780465008209
Booksplease Price: £16.64Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780465008209Author Richard BrookhiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Basic BooksPublisher Basic... -
Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Richard Brookhiser
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.01Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, Lincoln turned to the great men of the... -
Founders' Son: A Life of Abraham Lincoln by Richard Brookhiser 9780465040018
Booksplease Price: £14.00Abraham Lincoln grew up in the long shadow of the Founding Fathers. Seeking an intellectual and emotional replacement for his own taciturn father, Lincoln turned to the great men of the... -
The Hero Returns: Lafayette and the Legacy of Revolution Richard Brookhiser 9780300280906
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £22.50Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
John Marshall: The Man Who Made the Supreme Court by Richard Brookhiser
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.90In 1801, a 45-year-old Revolutionary War veteran and politician, slovenly, genial, brilliant, and persuasive, became the fourth chief justice of the United States, a post he would hold for a record... -
Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution by Richard Brookhiser 9780300259704
Booksplease Price: £21.05The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America's founding moment "Nuanced, engaging and incisive... -
Glorious Lessons: John Trumbull, Painter of the American Revolution Richard Brookhiser 9780300283310
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £13.92The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America's founding moment "Nuanced, engaging and incisive... -
Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution by Richard Brookhiser 9780743256025
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780743256025Author Richard BrookhiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint The Free PressPublisher... -
Wrestling With His Angel: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. II, 1849-1856 by Sidney Blumenthal 9781501153792
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £15.95The "magisterial" (The New York Times Book Review) second volume of Sidney Blumenthal's acclaimed, landmark biography, The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln, reveals the future president's genius... -
All the Powers of Earth: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. III, 1856-1860 by Sidney Blumenthal
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £16.05Lincoln's incredible ascent to power in a world of chaos is newly revealed in this "compelling, original, and elegantly written" (Michael Beschloss, New York Times bestselling author) third volume of... -
A Self-Made Man: The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809 - 1849 by Sidney Blumenthal 9781476777269
Booksplease Price: £14.00The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincoln, from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliation. From his... -
Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson by Fred I. Greenstein 9780691160917
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.32From George Washington's decision to buy time for the new nation by signing the less-than-ideal Jay Treaty with Great Britain in 1795 to George W. Bush's order of a military intervention in Iraq in... -
Inventing the Job of President: Leadership Style from George Washington to Andrew Jackson by Fred I. Greenstein 9780691133584
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £16.83From George Washington's decision to buy time for the new nation by signing the less-than-ideal Jay Treaty with Great Britain in 1795 to George W. Bush's order of a military intervention in Iraq in... -
Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Jefferson, and the American Revolution by John Ferling 9780195150841
RRP: £25.49Booksplease Price: £18.49Setting the World Ablaze is a biographical study of George Washington, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson and their struggle to erect a new nation. The three sections of Ferling's study chronologically... -
A Sacred Union of Citizens: George Washington's Farewell Address and the American Character by Matthew Spalding 9780847682621
Booksplease Price: £16.21One of the most influential but misunderstood expressions of American political thought, George Washington's 1796 Farewell Address is placed in the full context of American history and the authors... -
George Washington: America’s First Progressive by William B. Allen 9781433103711
RRP: £58.70Booksplease Price: £52.55George Washington defined progressivism and provided the rationale for its constitutional basis in a vision of self-government: a nation dedicated to and capable of sustaining civil and religious... -
The Founders at Home: The Building of America, 1735-1817 by Myron Magnet 9780393240214
RRP: £27.99Booksplease Price: £17.26Through the Founders' own voices-and in the homes they designed and built to embody the ideal of domestic happiness they fought to achieve-we come to understand why the American Revolution, of all... -
Lincoln and the American Founding by Lucas E. Morel 9780809337859
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.46In this persuasive work of intellectual history, Lucas E. Morel argues that the most important influence on Abraham Lincoln's political thought and practice was what he learned from the leading... -
Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton's Forgotten Son by A. K. Fielding
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £15.68Solider, politician, miner, pioneer, scion of a Founding Father, William Stephen Hamilton led a prolific life. Rough Diamond: The Life of Colonel William Stephen Hamilton examines the tumultuous... -
God's Country: Christian Zionism in America by Samuel Goldman
RRP: £32.00Booksplease Price: £27.40The United States is Israel's closest ally in the world. The fact is undeniable, and undeniably controversial, not least because it so often inspires conspiracy theorizing among those who refuse to... -
American Impresario: William F. Buckley, Jr., and the Elements of American Character Lawrence Perelman 9798888453797
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.84In 1994, William F. Buckley, Jr., the conservative icon, received a letter from an eighteen-year-old aspiring pianist by the name of Lawrence Perelman, the son of Soviet Jewish immigrants. Buckley's... -
Washington at the Plow: The Founding Farmer and the Question of Slavery by Bruce A. Ragsdale
RRP: £24.95Booksplease Price: £21.86Winner of the George Washington PrizeA fresh, original look at George Washington as an innovative land manager whose singular passion for farming would unexpectedly lead him to reject slavery.George... -
Disney's Land: Walt Disney and the Invention of the Amusement Park That Changed the World by Richard Snow
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £14.77A propulsive and "entertaining" (The Wall Street Journal) history chronicling the conception and creation of the iconic Disneyland theme park, as told like never before by popular historian Richard... -
1812: The Navy's War by George Daughan 9780465085996
Booksplease Price: £23.33When war broke out between Britain and the United States in 1812, America's prospects looked dismal. British naval aggression made it clear that the ocean would be the war's primary battlefield,but...