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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.8 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
An analysis of the intertwined careers of the founders of the American republic documents the lives of John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.7 - AR Pts: 49
Language
English
Description
National Bestseller
In this nuanced and complex portrait of Barack Obama, Pulitzer Prize-winner David Remnick offers a thorough, intricate, and riveting account of the unique experiences that shaped our nation’s first African American president.
Through extensive on-the-record interviews with friends and teachers, mentors and disparagers, family members and Obama himself, Remnick explores the elite institutions that
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.7 - AR Pts: 23
Language
English
Description
To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose "statue-like solidity" concealed volcanic energies and emotions. Here...
5) Lincoln
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.7 - AR Pts: 30
Language
English
6) Grant
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 56
Language
English
Description
Ulysses S. Grant was the first four-star general in the history of the United States Army and the only president between Andrew Jackson and Woodrow Wilson to serve eight consecutive years in the White House. As general in chief, Grant revolutionized modern warfare. Rather than capture enemy territory or march on Southern cities, he concentrated on engaging and defeating the Confederate armies in the field, and he pursued that strategy relentlessly....
7) Nixon
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1987-c1991
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10 - AR Pts: 58
Language
English
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road trip like no other--a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage. From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized...
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2013.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11 - AR Pts: 31
Language
English
Description
Drawing on a wide range of sources, including original archival research, Stephen Brumwell paints a compelling and challenging portrait of an extraordinary individual whose fusion of gentleman and warrior left an indelible imprint upon history.