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Essential Dictionary Of The U.S. Military

By: N/A

Price: $9.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Oxford: 2001

Seller ID: 9999536

ISBN: 0425180697

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Clean, sturdy and unmarked. Very light wear. A concise resource of U.S. military terminology, people, and battles covers all conflicts involving the U.S. military, from early colonial times to the present day, and provides information on military ranks, uniforms, insignia, weaponry, vehicles, aircraft, ships, medals, and more. Original.
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Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution

By: A. J. Langguth

Price: $3.55

Publisher: New York, NY, Simon and Schuster: 1988

Seller ID: 012049

ISBN: 0671675621

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

Shows some normal wear.
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The Federalist Papers

By: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay

Price: $27.55

Publisher: Westvaco: 1995

Seller ID: 3838220

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: New

The Federalist Papers: a Selection From the Original 85 Papers Published in 1787 and 1788.
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Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution

By: Benson Bobrick

Price: $2.05

Publisher: New York, Penguin: 1997

Seller ID: 58583

ISBN: 0140275002

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A disparate group of settlers, spread from New England to Georgia, agreed on little in the mid-eighteenth century. This fascinating history tells the story of how they eventually conquered the enemy, England, while it reminds readers just how divided the colonies really were. 3 maps.
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The Campaign That Won America: The Story of Yorktown

By: Burke Davis

Price: $3.05

Publisher: Eastern Acorn Press: 1997

Seller ID: 000704

ISBN: 0915992019

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

A note is written on the first blank page. Trade paperback size book of the Revolutionary War battle of Yorktown by master historian Burke Davis.
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Best Little Stories from the American Revolution

By: C. Brian Kelly with Ingrid Snyder-Kelly

Price: $2.55

Publisher: Nashville, TN, Cumberland House: 1999

Seller ID: 5097

ISBN: 1581820062

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fair

Best Little Stories of the American Revolution is a journalistic history of the birth of the United States in the form of more than 100 vignettes reflecting the period. Here is the history of the war as it affected soldiers and civilians, loyalists and patriots, leaders and common folk - people who courageously prevailed against an enemy with vastly superior resources. Included are such stories as: Thomas Jefferson's painful discomfort as the Continental Congress made changes in his vaunted Declaration of Independence. Two rogue warriors, loyalist and patriot, who thought nothin...
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The War of the Revolution (Volume II)

By: Christopher Ward Edited by John Richard Alden

Price: $3.05

Publisher: New York, NY, Macmillan Company: 1952

Seller ID: 992

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Sturdy. Light fading on page edges. Volume 2 of a two volume set of Christopher Ward's famous account of the American Revolutionary War.
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George Washington: Military Genius (The Generals)

By: Dave R. Palmer

Price: $5.50

Publisher: Washington, DC, Regency History: 2012

Seller ID: 5555164

ISBN: 1621573729

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

George Washington’s military strategy has been called bumbling at worst and brilliant at best. So which is it? Was George Washington a strategic genius or just lucky? So asks Dave R. Palmer in his new book, George Washington’s Military Genius. An updated edition of Palmer's earlier work, The Way of the Fox, George Washington’s Military Genius breaks down the American Revolution into four phases and analyzes Washington's strategy during each phrase. "The British did not have to lose; the patriots did not have to triumph," writes Palmer as he proves without a doubt that Washington's contin...
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John Adams

By: David McCullough

Price: $4.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks: 2001

Seller ID: 9918722

ISBN: 141657588X

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

No underlining, clean and sturdy. In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses"; and whose marriage to the wise and valiant Abigail Adams is one of the most moving love stories in American histor...
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The Founding Fathers on Leadership: Classic Teamwork in Changing Times

By: Donald T. Phillips

Price: $3.00

Publisher: New York, NY, Warner Books: 1997

Seller ID: 9999416

ISBN: 0446520926

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

Sturdy. No underlines. Light discoloration on page edges.
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The British Army in the American Revolution

By: Edward E. Curtis

Price: $16.54

Publisher: Gansevoort, NY, Corner House Historical Publications: 1998

Seller ID: 4646242

ISBN: 0879281227

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Several underlines. Previous owner's name is stamped on the first blank page.
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The Confederacy As a Revolutionary Experience

By: Emory M. Thomas

Price: $4.00

Publisher: Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall: 1971

Seller ID: 5959394

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Sturdy. No underlines. Light cover wear. Light wear.
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Virginia Trivia

By: Ernie and Jill Couch

Price: $1.55

Publisher: Nashville, TN, Rutledge Hill Press: 1991

Seller ID: 004301

ISBN: 1558531394

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Virginia Trivia is the who, what, when, where, and how book of the great state of Virginia. Filled with interesting questions and answers about well-known and not-so-well-known facts of this colorful, historic state, Virginia Trivia will provide hous of entertainment and education. It focuses on the history, culture, people, and places of the fascinating Old Dominion.
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Wives of the Signers: The Women Behind the Declaration of Independence

By: Forward by David Barton

Price: $2.80

Publisher: Aledo, TX, Wallbuilders: 2010

Seller ID: 4646400

ISBN: 0925279609

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used Like New

Originally penned in 1912, this historical reprint showcases individual portraits of the fiercely courageous women who endured tremendous hardship as their husbands fought to build an independent nation. Women such as Abigail Adams, Dorothy Quincy Hancock, and Julia Stockton Rush contributed their wisdom, strength, and loyalty to the cause of the Revolution, shaping history as a result.
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American Patriots: The Story of Blacks in the Military from the Revolution to Desert Storm

By: Gail Buckley

Price: $4.94

Publisher: New York, Random House: 2001

Seller ID: 005276

ISBN: 0375502793

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

This work complements Bernard Nalty's academically oriented history of blacks in America's wars, Strength for the Fight (1986), and Gerald Astor's narrative account, The Right to Fight (1998). Basing her account heavily on interviews and similar primary material, Buckley focuses on the particular experiences of black soldiers. She pulls no punches in describing discrimination against black soldiers, misrepresentation of their performances and denial of their achievements. But in a dominant culture that for much of its history was overtly segregated and highly racist, the pressures of necessity...
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Defending The Declaration: How the Bible And Christianity Influenced he Writing Of The Declaration Of Independence

By: Gary T. Amos

Price: $3.50

Publisher: Brentwood, TN, Wolgemuth & Hyatt: 1989

Seller ID: 99186901

ISBN: 0943497698

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

No underlining, has a note from the previous owner on first page, clean and sturdy. Very light wear. After ten years of research and four years of writing, Dr. Gary Amos reveals that the evidence from primary sources is irrefutable: underlying the Declaration of Independence is a foundation of Biblical principles and Christian influence. The Bible and Christianity -- not deism and secularism -- were the most important influences on the framers. Amos laments that America's educational system denies or ignores almost all this evidence. Evidence he believes to be undeniable.
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The Grand Adventure: A Year by Year History of Virginia

By: James A. Crutchfield

Price: $6.55

Publisher: Richmond, VA, The Dietz Press: 2005

Seller ID: 0606990

ISBN: 0875171257

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: As New

From 1607 to the present, historical writer James A. Crutchfield takes the reader on an informative and exciting trip through Virginia's history.
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America's Military Adversaries: From Colonial Times to the Present

By: John C. Fredriksen

Price: $6.05

Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA, ABC-CLIO: 2001

Seller ID: 2755

ISBN: 1576076032

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Books on American military heroes abound. But this book is the first to focus on America's talented enemieS≪/I>—the generals, admirals, Indian chiefs and warriors, submarine captains, fighter pilots, and spies who opposed the United States with military force or other means. Often these military leaders were among the best minds of their times. For more than two centuries, the new nation's most constant military opponents were the Native Americans, led by such capable chiefs as American Horse and Little Wolf. Under D'Iberville, Canada's French colonialists became formidable foes, bu...
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A History of Warfare

By: John Keegan

Price: $3.50

Publisher: New York, Knoph: 1993

Seller ID: 011849

ISBN: 0394588010

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

In his sweeping new study, Keegan ( The Face of Battle ) examines the origins and nature of warfare, the ethos of the primitive and modern warrior and the development of weapons and defenses from the battle of Megiddo (1469 B.C.) into the nuclear age. Keegan offers a refreshingly original and challenging perspective. He characterizes warriors as the protectors of civilization rather than as its enemy and maintains that warfare is "entirely a masculine activity." Though warfare has become an ingrained practice over the course of 4000 years, he argues, its manifestation in the primitive world wa...
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Fields of Battle: The Wars for North America

By: John Keegan

Price: $2.05

Publisher: New York, Vintage: 1997

Seller ID: 5252952

ISBN: 0679746641

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Good

Sturdy. No underlines. Several page corners are lightly creased. At once a grand tour of the battlefields of North America and an unabashedly personal tribute to the military prowess of an essentially unwarlike people, Fields of Battle spans more than two centuries and the expanse of a continent to show how the immense spaces of North America shaped the wars that were fought on its soil. of photos.
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Price: $2.05

Publisher: New York, Vintage Books: 2000

Seller ID: 894946

ISBN: 0375705244

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award—winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals–Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison–confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the course for our nation. The United States was more a fragile hope than a reality in 1790. During the decade that followed, the Founding Fathers–re-examined here as Founding Brothers–combined the ideals of the Declaration of Independence with the content of the Constitution to create the practical...
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The Way of Duty: A Woman and Her Family in Revolutionary America

By: Joy Day Buel And Richard Buel Jr.

Price: $2.05

Publisher: NY, Norton And Company: 1984

Seller ID: 999763

ISBN: 039301762

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Light fading on page edges. Combining the skills of a gifted writer and a scholar's grasp of early America, The Way of Duty draws readers into a vividly evoked world. The Buels have used a rich trove of documents to tell the story of a Connecticut woman, Mary Fish Silliman (1736–1818), whose adventures illuminate the day-to-day realities of living through the American Revolution.
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God in the Trenches: A History of How God Defends Freedom When America Is At War

By: Larkin Spivey

Price: $5.05

Publisher: Washington, DC, Allegiance Press: 2001

Seller ID: 5454015

ISBN: 1931232733

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Spivey shows when the nation's survival seemed uncertian, even doubtful,fate seemed to turn America's way, giving way to mysterious--if not miraculous events. These events altered the course of history, leading to victory for the American military and enduring freedom for America's citizens.
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The American Revolution in Notes, Quotes and Anecdotes

By: Lee M. White

Price: $2.55

Publisher: Fairfax, VA, Prince: 1975

Seller ID: 000398

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

Here is the story of the American Revolution told in a fresh, lively and unique way. This is no grim account of warfare and death but rather a joyous celebration of the birth of our Republic. In addition to well-known facts, our researchers have discovered amusing and amazing little-known stories of the times and our writer has molded them into a text that is both easy and fun to read. Although appropriately illustrated with beautiful antique American art, there is nothing stuffy or 'old-fashioned' about this snappy publication. Wherever you may travel in the original thirteen, or indeed in al...
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Faith of Our Founding Fathers

By: Leo Godzich

Price: $2.55

Publisher: Phoenix, AZ, NAME:

Seller ID: 3838240

ISBN: 0971284725

Binding: Paperback

Condition: New

Celebrations of a Nation: Early American Holidays

By: Lucile Johnston

Price: $4.05

Publisher: Arlington, VA, Johnston Bicentennial Foundation: 1987

Seller ID: 13585

ISBN: 0962034312

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

"Great for gifts", this lively Christian history of America’s first holidays — Thanksgiving, The Fourth of July, and Presidents Day — is a compelling journey into the origins of our democracy. Thoroughly researched, Johnston’s third book grabs our attention with exciting stories and painting reproductions and gives us the sense of being there when this nation began. Celebrations of a Nation explores the education, vision, struggles and triumphs of our forefathers in their own words, and ties them together in a colorful, novel-like way. Informative and inspiring, we learn how the Chris...
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100 Battles That Shaped the World (Military Pockt Guide)

By: Martin J. Dougherty

Price: $5.00

Publisher: New York, Parragon: 2012

Seller ID: 9998974

ISBN: 1445467631

Binding: Softback

Condition: Very Good

Clean and sturdy. No markings. Very light wear. 100 Battles provides an insight into the history of warfare. It focuses on the battles which have had a significant influence on the make up of the modern world. The book includes color tactical maps that allow the reader to grasp the decisive moves of the battle. It also contains locator maps that put the reader on the spot of the battle along with at-a-glance information boxes to the help the reader quickly understand the importance and impact of the battle. Illustrated artworks of uniforms, tactics, and military technologies of the time make t...
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From the Front: The Story of War

By: Michael S. Sweeney

Price: $2.55

Publisher: Washington, D.C., National Geographic:

Seller ID: 846

ISBN: 0792281942

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

"In this vivid, visually gripping account of modern warfare, awarding-winning author Michael Sweeney takes us onto battlefields from the Crimea to Kuwait to chronicle 150 years of war, often in the words of those who have seen it firsthand.
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Patrick Henry: Patriot and Statesman

By: Norine Dickson Campbell

Price: $7.55

Publisher: Old Greenwich, Connecticut, The Devin-Adair Company: 1975

Seller ID: 4040583

ISBN: 081596501x

Binding: Cloth

Condition: Good

Some very light staining on the page edges.
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From Sea to Shining Sea: God's Plan for America Unfolds

By: Peter Marshall and David Manuel

Price: $7.55

Publisher: Old Tappan, NJ, Fleming H. Revell Company: 1986

Seller ID: 010192

ISBN: 0800714512

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Does God really bless a nation that honors him? In From Sea to Shining Sea, Peter Marshall and David Manuel take us back to the post-revolutionary era to reveal how God intervened on behalf of our struggling young nation. During this fifty-year period, Daniel Boone, Andrew Jackson, Sam Houston, and other American heroes carved out their place in history. Conestoga wagons and circuit riders became famous, Indian wars and slavery were major concerns, and the Louisiana Purchase and the Oregon Trail expanded Americas borders from sea to shining sea. The authors tell how Gods hand was evident in t...
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The Light and the Glory: Did God Have a Plan for America?

By: Peter Marshall and David Manuel

Price: $10.35

Publisher: Old Tappan, NJ, Fleming H. Revell Company: 1977

Seller ID: 010196

ISBN: 0800708865

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

For those of us who, like the authors, have been exposed mostly to the secular accounts of this period of American history, the information presented becomes a revelation of very great magnitude. ... This book is important. I would that every professing Christian read Gods Holy Bible and this book. There are, of a surety, better and more comprehensive histories than this, but I would recommend none more highly to introduce the student to our Christian American roots as pertains to our beginnings on these shores. -- Christian Forum Book Review Gives us new appreciation and inspiration to ful...
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A Documentary History Of The United States

By: Richard D. Heffner

Price: $3.05

Publisher: NY, Signet Books: 2002

Seller ID: 333203

ISBN: 0451207483

Binding: Mass Market Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Here in one single volume are the documents, speeches, and letters that have forged U.S. history-from the complete text of the Declaration of Independence to J.F.K.'s inaugural address to George W. Bush's speeches after the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
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Jordan Freeman Was My Friend: A Novel

By: Richard White

Price: $18.00

Publisher: Thorndike, ME, Thorndike Press: 1994

Seller ID: 5555356

ISBN: 0786202246

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used Like New

Clean and sturdy. No interior markings. There is a small marker mark on the bottom edge of the pages. The friendship between eleven-year-old Billy Latham and former slave Jordan Freeman is set against the backdrop of the American Revolution, in a story based on a real-life 1781 massacre at Fort Griswold in Connecticut. By the author of Mister Grey.
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Revolution Song: A Story of American Freedom

By: Russel Shorto

Price: $13.00

Publisher: NY, W.W. Norton & Company: 2018

Seller ID: 6060481

ISBN: 0393245543

Binding: Hardback

Condition: Used Like New

Clean, sturdy and unmarked. Never read. There is a very small stain spot on the top edge of a few pages. From the author of the acclaimed history The Island at the Center of the World, an intimate new epic of the American Revolution that reinforces its meaning for today. Russell Shorto’s work has been praised as “first-rate intellectual history” (Wall Street Journal), “literary alchemy” (Chicago Tribune) and simply “astonishing” (New York Times). In his epic new book, Russell Shorto takes us back to the founding of the American nation, drawing on diaries, letters and autobi...
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Americans at War

By: Stephen E. Ambrose

Price: $2.05

Publisher: New York, NY, Berkley Books: 1998

Seller ID: 011125

ISBN: 0425165108

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Fine

Stephen E. Ambrose, one of the foremost historians of the European theater of World War II, shares his vast knowledge of that conflict as well as the Civil War, Korea, Vietnam, and the Cold War in this compelling narrative about the American way of war. From Vicksburg to My Lai, Ambrose recounts the history of these wars with extensive coverage of the battlefields and believable portrayals of those involved, creating the perspective that the country's conflicts both reflect and shape American democratic society.
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Epic Retreats: From 1776 to the Evacuation of Saigon

By: Stephen Tanner

Price: $2.55

Publisher: Edison, NJ, Castle Books: 2002

Seller ID: 606826

ISBN: 0785814035

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

In between glorious triumphs and noble catastrophes of military history lies a neglected stepchild: retreat. This book spans the modern era-from horses to helicopters-with highly detailed analyses of seven famous campaigns.
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Another Such Victory

By: Thomas E. Baker

Price: $5.55

Publisher: Fort Washington, PA, Eastern National: 2005

Seller ID: 4646412

ISBN: 1590910397

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used As New

Never read. A short note is written on the second blank page. Another such victory would ruin the British army. These were the words Charles James Fox used before the House of Commons when news reached London of the battle the British forces had won at Guilford Courthouse, North Carolina. Here is a lively and detailed account of the victory of March 15, 1781, that devastatingly weakened the British, started Cornwallis on the road to Yorktown and ultimately led to surrender.
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Notes on the State of Virginia

By: Thomas Jefferson Edited by William Peden

Price: $2.05

Publisher: New York, NY, W. W. Norton & Company: 1982

Seller ID: 3606

ISBN: 0393006476

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Good

“This is a Bedford book that is long overdue, and David Waldstreicher is a superb choice as editor. This new edition of Notes on the State of Virginia is informed by the more recent scholarship on Jefferson, which the editor knows cold, and it will attract a substantial audience among college teachers, yours truly included.” —Joseph J. Ellis, Mount Holyoke College “This is an excellent piece of work. Specialists as well as students will learn from the Introduction, and though the Notes are available in many editions, they have never been so attractively and accessibly presented. Als...
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Faith Of Our Founding Fathers

By: Tim LaHaye

Price: $3.00

Publisher: Brentwood, TN, Wolgemuth & Hyatt Publishers: 1987

Seller ID: 9999097

ISBN: 0943497523

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Sturdy. No underlines.
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Our Sacred Honor: Words of Advice from the Founders in Stories, Letters, Poems, and Speeches

By: William J. Bennett

Price: $2.55

Publisher: Nashville Tenessee, Broadman and Holman Publishers: 1997

Seller ID: 001659

ISBN: 0805401539

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

Millions of American families have turned to "The Book of Virtues" and "The Moral Compass" by William J. Bennett for moral guidance in troubled times. "Our Sacred Honor" offers inspiration and instruction as well -- this time of a particularly American sort. In "Our Sacred Honor," Bennett has collected the best that has been thought and said by and about the men and women who founded America. The stories, songs, letters and speeches collected in "Our Sacred Honor" are an inspiring celebration of American exceptionalism.
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Our Sacred Honor: Words of Advice from the Founders in Stories, Letters, Poems, and Speeches

By: William J. Bennett

Price: $2.55

Publisher: New York, Simon and Schuster: 1997

Seller ID: 006334

ISBN: 068484138X

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: As New

Our Country's Founders: A Book of Advice for Young People

By: William J. Bennett

Price: $4.55

Publisher: New York, NY, Simon & Schuster: 1998

Seller ID: 15922

ISBN: 0689844697

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Very Good

Encouraged by the thousands of young Americans who enjoyed The Book of Virtues for Young People, William J. Bennett returns with an inspiring collection drawn from the best-selling adult book Our Sacred Honor. This adapted version highlights the speeches, letters, poems, and articles of the brave men and women who founded our great nation, including George Washington, John and Abigail Adams, and Benjamin Franklin. Their advice on values such as patriotism, love, civility, education, industry, justice, and piety still rings true for young people today. Our Country's Founders also includes...
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This Day is Ours: NOvemeer 1776-January 1777, An Inside View of the Battle of Trenton and Princeton

By: William M. Dwyer

Price: $4.05

Publisher: New York, Viking: 1983

Seller ID: 787487

ISBN: 0670114464

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Good

The Day is Ours! is a dramatic account of two battles that turned the tide of the American Revolution. In this distinguished, highly readable, and richly detailed narrative history, William M. Dwyer reveals as vivid a picture as we are likely to see of a critical period in the American Revolution. He lets the participants--from American, British, and Hessian soldiers to myriad fearful and ambivalent citizens--tell the story in their own words.
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Rebels Under Sail: The American Navy During the Revolution

By: Willian M. Fowler

Price: $3.05

Publisher: New York, NY, Charles Scribgner's Sons: 1976

Seller ID: 17294

ISBN: 0684145839

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

Previous owners name is inside front and back covers. Slight reader wear.
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Category: American History - American Revolution