| Search | About | Preferences | Interact | Help | |
| 150 million books. 1 search engine. | ||
Willard Sterne Randall
new books, used books, rare books by Willard Sterne Randall
› Find all books by 'Willard Sterne Randall' and compare prices› Find signed collectible books by 'Willard Sterne Randall'
Alexander Hamilton: A Lifeby Willard Sterne RandallISBN 0060954663 (0-06-095466-3)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Alexander Hamilton: A Life'Book summary:In the first full, one-volume biography of Alexander Hamilton in more than two decades, award-winning historian Willard Sterne Randall takes a fresh look at one of the most brilliant, conflicted, and elusive of our nation's founders.
Orphaned at thirteen and apprenticed in a counting house, the precocious Hamilton learned principles of business that helped him, as the first U.S. secretary of the treasury, to create the American banking system and invent the modern corporation. But first the staunch, intrepid Hamilton served in the American Revolution, primarily as aide-de-camp to General Washington, acting as Washington's spymaster. Forging a successful legal career, Hamilton coauthored The Federalist Papers and plunged into politics. Irresistibly attractive to women, he was a man of many gifts, but he could be arrogant and was at times a poor judge of character.
In this meticulously researched, illuminating, and lively account, Willard Sterne Randall mines the latest scholarship to provide a new perspective on Alexander Hamilton, his illegitimate birth, little-known military activities, political and diplomatic intrigues, and sometimes scandalous private life.
From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean island of Nevis to his untimely death in a duel with his old enemy Aaron Burr in 1804, Alexander Hamilton, despite his short and tragic life, left a huge legacy.
[via]More editions of Alexander Hamilton: A Life:
American Lives: Since 1877by Nancy Nahra, Willard Sterne RandallISBN 0673469875 (0-673-46987-5)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'American Lives: Since 1877'More editions of American Lives: Since 1877:
-
American Lives: To 1876by Nancy Nahra, Willard Sterne RandallISBN 0673469867 (0-673-46986-7)
Softcover, Longman Pub Group
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'American Lives: To 1876'Book summary:
[via]American Lives is a collection of succinct biographical essays on both renowned and lesser-known figures in American History. More editions of American Lives: To 1876:
-
Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitorby Willard Sterne RandallISBN 1557100349 (1-55710-034-9)
Hardcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor'Book summary:Part Two Of Two Parts
Benedict Arnold should have died in battle. For the first half of the American Revolution, he fought brilliant and successful campaigns. He built an American fleet on Lake Champlain, repulsed the British at Valcour Island, won the battle of Saratoga and nearly succeeded in making Canada the 14th state. So why did he turn coat?
Motives are difficult, but there was something almost too ambitious about Arnold. Was he unstable? Overly ardent? Grandiose? Whatever the vice, it visited him fatally late in the war. In 1880 he sold himself and his secrets to the Brits. He got 6000 pounds, the contempt of his allies and a name that means "traitor" to this day.
"A tale of high tragedy." (The Quarterly Journal of Military History) [via]
More editions of Benedict Arnold: Patriot and Traitor:
Forgotten Americans: Footnote Figures Who Changed American Historyby Willard Sterne Randall , Nancy Ann NahraISBN 0738201502 (0-7382-0150-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Forgotten Americans: Footnote Figures Who Changed American History'Book summary:In 1779 a Philadelphia belle, Margaret Shippen, married a hero of the ongoing Revolution, General Benedict Arnold. Within months Peggy was sending coded messages to an old suitor from England, conveying Arnolds promise to defect. When their plot was discovered, the general fled. Peggy distracted George Washington with hysterics before following her husband. The British government eventually paid Peggy far more than Benedict Arnold ever received.A generation later, the Philadelphia neighborhood where Margaret Shippen had grown up was home to a businessman named James Forten. Due to his invention for rigging sails, Forten was rich enough to build large public halls and bankroll political causes. At the same time, this veteran of the Revolution was losing his political voice because he was black.Margaret Shippen Arnold and James Forten are just two of the fifteen fascinating but little-known lives told in Forgotten Americans. Weitten by an honored biographer and an award-winning poet, this entertaining book shines a light on overlooked figures. Traditional histories have often neglected these people, for many reasons. Some were on the losing side of a conflict, such as Tecumeseh, who spent years trying to unite Indian nations against white settlers. Others worked behind the scenes, like Annie Turner Wittenmyer, who took charge of supplying Union hospitals in the West during the Civil War. And some we disregard because their actions now seem unsavory, as with the once-celebrated Indian-slayer Tom Quick.From these fascinating threads, Will Randall and Nancy Nahra weave a rich tapestry of American life. In it we witness the power of religious revival and the lure of mass entertainment. We watch philosophical differences split the nation. We see the shift in Native Americans lives from Teedyuscung, a Delaware murdered despite his conversion to Christianity, to Louis Sockalexis, the baseball prodigy. These lively stories also reveal little-known facets of the famous: Benjamin Franklins disinherited son, Thomas Jeffersons secret politicking, and how Mary Todd Lincolns confinement to a mental hospital became a public issue. From early settlements to the close of the nineteenth century, the brief biographies in Forgotten Americans engagingly fill out our knowledge of the nations past.[via]More editions of Forgotten Americans: Footnote Figures Who Changed American History:
The Founding City: The Philadelphia Inquirer's Bicentennial Journalsby Willard Sterne Randall , David R. BoldtISBN 0801965659 (0-8019-6565-9)
Hardcover, Philadelphia Inquirer
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'The Founding City: The Philadelphia Inquirer's Bicentennial Journals'More editions of The Founding City: The Philadelphia Inquirer's Bicentennial Journals:
-
George Washington: A Lifeby Willard Sterne Randall , David R. BoldtISBN 1578661528 (1-57866-152-8)
Hardcover, Galahad Books
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'George Washington: A Life'Book summary:To most people George Washington is a mysterious icon, the man on the dollar who we know about mostly because of mythical exploits. This substantial biography of the first American president succeeds in portraying Washington as a man with a keen mind and sharp temper who overcame great adversity. In particular, George Washington is valuable for its telling of the story of Washington's early life. How the frontier surveyor took to a military career, failed at it, and eventually redeemed himself as a great leader of the American Revolution is an engrossing story that may be surprising to many who think they know about Washington, but mostly know just the myths. [via]
More editions of George Washington: A Life:
-
Thomas Jefferson : A Lifeby Willard Sterne Randall , David R. BoldtISBN 0805015779 (0-8050-1577-9)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Thomas Jefferson : A Life'Book summary:A biography of Thomas Jefferson, who despite his legendary intelligence and political savvy, could be ruthless, not to mention lawless, in his efforts to preserve his causes. Jefferson operated on two levels, as his opposition to slavery as a slaveowner attests. But as Willard Sterne Randall argues, this duality is what made him so effective. Whether Jefferson's 1784 draft of Virginia's constitution "prefigured the founding documents of republics in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, as well as the Confederate States of America," as Randall claims, is questionable, but his impact on international trade, diplomatic discussions and the success of the state of Virginia cannot be disputed. [via]
More editions of Thomas Jefferson : A Life:
-
Thomas Jefferson: A Lifeby Willard Sterne RandallISBN 0060976179 (0-06-097617-9)
Softcover, Harpercollins
Find This Book
› Find signed collectible books: 'Thomas Jefferson: A Life'Book summary:A biography of Thomas Jefferson, who despite his legendary intelligence and political savvy, could be ruthless, not to mention lawless, in his efforts to preserve his causes. Jefferson operated on two levels, as his opposition to slavery as a slaveowner attests. But as Willard Sterne Randall argues, this duality is what made him so effective. Whether Jefferson's 1784 draft of Virginia's constitution "prefigured the founding documents of republics in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America, as well as the Confederate States of America," as Randall claims, is questionable, but his impact on international trade, diplomatic discussions and the success of the state of Virginia cannot be disputed. [via]
More editions of Thomas Jefferson: A Life:
![[powered by Muze Inc.]](http://i.bookfinder.com/images/site/muze/powered_by_muze.gif){kind=small}