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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
Formats
Description
Chronicles the founding father's life and his multiple careers as a shopkeeper, writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, business strategist, and political leader, while showing how his faith in the wisdom of the common citizen helped forge an American national identity based on the virtues of its middle class.
Author
Publisher
University of Virginia Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
First and Always: A New Portrait of George Washington focuses on various aspects of Washington's life and character. The book examines his leadership qualities, his relationship with his mother, the myths surrounding Washington, the Asgill Affair, his fractured friendships with famous Virginians, his dealings with his enslaved workers, and in the Quasi-War with France--
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
In a genre overdue for a shakeup, Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds he's not quite the man we remember Young George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, chased rich young women, caused an international incident, and never backed down--even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle. But after he married Martha, everything changed. Washington became the...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
c2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In May 1787 delegates from across the country--including George Washington, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin--gathered in Philadelphia and, meeting over the course of a sweltering summer, created a new framework for governing: the Constitution of
Author
Publisher
Rosen Central Primary Sources
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.5 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the colonies' break from Great Britain and the creation of a new government of the United States.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
We know-and love-the story of the American Revolution, from the Declaration of Independence to Cornwallis's defeat. But our first government was a disaster and the country was in a terrible crisis. So when a group of men traveled to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to save a nation in danger of collapse, they had no great expectations for the meeting that would make history. But all the ideas, arguments, and compromises led to a great thing: a constitution...
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--brilliantly told--of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal...
14) The Constitution
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Uses time lines, illustrations, photographs and a map to help present the history and evolution of the Constitution of the United States.
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2017]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 8.9 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
The author traces his family's experiences immigrating to the U.S. to introduce the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, explaining how it represents America's democratic values and discussing the importance of the documents' history.
Author
Language
English
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Description
On March 15, 1783, General George Washington addressed a group of angry officers in an effort to rescue the American Revolution from mutiny at the highest level. After the British surrender at Yorktown, the American Revolution still blazed on, and as peace was negotiated in Europe, grave problems surfaced at home. The government was broke, paying its debts with loans from France. Political rivalry among the states paralyzed Congress. The army's officers,...
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