The Cause
The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
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Joseph J. Ellis
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A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it.
George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: Former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radical change without their colonists’ consent.
With The Cause, Ellis takes a fresh look at the events between 1773 and 1783, recovering a war more brutal than any in American history save the Civil War and discovering a strange breed of “prudent” revolutionaries, whose prudence proved wise yet tragic when it came to slavery, the original sin that still haunts our land. Written with flair and drama, The Cause brings together a cast of familiar and forgotten characters who, taken together, challenge the story we have long told ourselves about our origins as a people and a nation.
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Acclaimed author Joseph J. Ellis penned the National Book Award-winning American Sphinx and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers, a fixture on The New York Times best seller list for an entire year, and one of the most popular history books of all time. Now this master historian turns his attention to the most exalted American hero, Founding Father and first President George Washington.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ellis is a known liar
- De Theresa en 02-21-05
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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Franklin & Washington
- The Founding Partnership
- De: Edward J. Larson
- Narrado por: Andrew Tell
- Duración: 11 h
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Today the United States is the world’s great superpower, and yet we also wrestle with the government Franklin and Washington created more than two centuries ago - the power of the executive branch, the principle of checks and balances, the electoral college - as well as the wounds of their compromise over slavery. Now, as the founding institutions appear under new stress, it is time to understand their origins through the fresh lens of Larson’s Franklin & Washington, a major addition to the literature of the founding era.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Two together, written about at same time
- De fair & balanced en 03-28-21
De: Edward J. Larson
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This Mighty Scourge
- Perspectives on the Civil War
- De: James M. McPherson
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 8 h y 48 m
- Versión completa
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Battle Cry of Freedom and many other award-winning books, James M. McPherson is America's preeminent Civil War historian. Now, in this collection of provocative and illuminating essays, McPherson offers fresh insight into many of the most enduring questions about one of the defining moments in our nation's history.
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4 out of 5 stars
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An Introduction to McPherson
- De Roy en 05-03-09
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The War That Forged a Nation
- Why the Civil War Still Matters
- De: James McPherson
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 7 h y 29 m
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian James M. McPherson considers why the Civil War remains so deeply embedded in our national psyche and identity. The drama and tragedy of the war help explain why the Civil War remains a topic of interest. But the legacy of the war extends far beyond historical interest or scholarly attention.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Different Kind of History from McPherson
- De Carole T. en 08-11-16
De: James McPherson
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Armies of Deliverance
- A New History of the Civil War
- De: Elizabeth R. Varon
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 17 h y 41 m
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Loyal Americans marched off to war in 1861 not to conquer the South but to liberate it. So argues Elizabeth R. Varon in Armies of Deliverance, a sweeping narrative of the Civil War and a bold new interpretation of Union and Confederate war aims. Northerners imagined the war as a crusade to deliver the Southern masses from slaveholder domination and to bring democracy, prosperity, and education to the region. As the war escalated, Lincoln and his allies built the case that emancipation would secure military victory and benefit the North and South alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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First rate history
- De John S. Pachter en 06-10-24
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Battle Cry of Freedom
- The Civil War Era
- De: James M. McPherson
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 39 h y 40 m
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Battle Cry of Freedom vividly traces how a new nation was forged when a war both sides were sure would amount to little dragged for four years and cost more American lives than all other wars combined. Narrator Jonathan Davis powerful reading brings to life the many voices of the Civil War.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent Book
- De J. Weston en 12-11-20
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What If? Part 1
- Reshaping the 20th Century
- De: Stephen E. Ambrose, John Keegan, more
- Narrado por: John Cunningham, Janet Zarish
- Duración: 4 h y 45 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 163
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What if Hitler had won the war, if Japan had another sneak attack, or if the cold war turned hot? What If? provides a fascinating new perspective on history's most pivotal events. Featuring today's foremost historians speculating on what could have happened, we discover where we might be if history had not unfolded the way it did.
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2 out of 5 stars
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For history buffs
- De Charles Elmore en 05-11-04
De: Stephen E. Ambrose, y otros
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The Savior Generals
- How Five Great Commanders Saved Wars That Were Lost - From Ancient Greece to Iraq
- De: Victor Davis Hanson
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 10 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 364
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Prominent military historian Victor Davis Hanson explores the nature of leadership with his usual depth and vivid prose in The Savior Generals, a set of brilliantly executed pocket biographies of five generals (Themistocles, Belisarius, William Tecumseh Sherman, Matthew Ridgway, and David Petraeus) who single-handedly saved their nations from defeat in war. War is rarely a predictable enterprise - it is a mess of luck, chance, and incalculable variables. Today's sure winner can easily become tomorrow's doomed loser.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A good history book tells about human nature.
- De Doruk Denkel en 03-03-20
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The Ascent of George Washington
- The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon
- De: John Ferling
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 17 h y 19 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 93
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Even compared to his fellow founders, George Washington stands tall. Our first president has long been considered a stoic hero, holding himself above the rough-and-tumble politics of his day. Now John Ferling peers behind that image, carefully burnished by Washington himself, to show us a leader who was not only not above politics but a canny infighter---a master of persuasion, manipulation, and deniability.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A very Honest look at George Washington
- De DM en 03-24-22
De: John Ferling
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Napoleon
- Soldier of Destiny
- De: Michael Broers
- Narrado por: Simon Vance
- Duración: 20 h y 31 m
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Written with great energy and authority - and using the newly available personal archives of Napoleon himself - the first volume of a majestic two-part biography of the great French emperor and conqueror.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Clarity
- De Tad Davis en 03-25-19
De: Michael Broers
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The Great Democracies
- A History of the English Speaking Peoples, Volume IV
- De: Sir Winston Churchill
- Narrado por: Christian Rodska
- Duración: 12 h y 41 m
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The fourth and last volume in Churchill's famous account spans 1815 to 1901. It closes when the British Empire is at its peak, with a staggering one-fifth of the human race presided over by the longest reigning monarch in British history: Queen Victoria.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A fitting conclusion to Sir Winston's narrative.
- De Vradeen Sengir en 02-11-19
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George Washington’s Military Genius
- De: Dave R. Palmer
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 7 h y 45 m
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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 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Genius
- De John en 08-08-22
De: Dave R. Palmer
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Leadership in War
- Essential Lessons from Those Who Made History
- De: Andrew Roberts
- Narrado por: John Lee
- Duración: 6 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 174
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Taking us from the French Revolution to the Cold War, Andrew Roberts presents us with a bracingly honest and deeply insightful look at nine major figures in modern history: Napoleon Bonaparte, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, Adolf Hitler, Joseph Stalin, George C. Marshall, Charles de Gaulle, Dwight D. Eisenhower, and Margaret Thatcher. Each one of these leaders fundamentally shaped the outcome of the war in which their nation was embroiled.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fantastic
- De Amazon Customer en 01-15-20
De: Andrew Roberts
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The Greek Revolution
- 1821 and the Making of Modern Europe
- De: Mark Mazower
- Narrado por: John Lee, Mark Mazower
- Duración: 20 h y 58 m
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As Mark Mazower shows us in his enthralling and definitive new account, myths about the Greek War of Independence outpaced the facts from the very beginning, and for good reason. This was an unlikely cause, against long odds, a disorganized collection of Greek patriots up against what was still one of the most storied empires in the world, the Ottomans. The revolutionaries needed all the help they could get.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Excellent, had it not been for the narrator
- De Jean N en 05-15-22
De: Mark Mazower
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Black Spartacus
- The Epic Life of Toussaint Louverture
- De: Sudhir Hazareesingh
- Narrado por: Ben Arogundade
- Duración: 17 h y 35 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 63
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Among the defining figures of the Age of Revolution, Toussaint Louverture is the most enigmatic. Though the Haitian revolutionary’s image has multiplied across the globe—appearing on banknotes and in bronze, on T-shirts and in film—the only definitive portrait executed in his lifetime has been lost. Well versed in the work of everyone from Machiavelli to Rousseau, he was nonetheless dismissed by Thomas Jefferson as a “cannibal.” A Caribbean acolyte of the European Enlightenment, Toussaint nurtured a class of black Catholic clergymen who became one of the pillars of his rule.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Liberator of Haiti and a lamp to the world
- De Mike en 11-08-20
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Washington and Hamilton
- The Alliance That Forged America
- De: Stephen F. Knott, Tony Williams
- Narrado por: Ron Butler
- Duración: 10 h y 21 m
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In the wake of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers faced a daunting task: overcome their competing visions to build a new nation, the likes of which the world had never seen. Washington and Hamilton chronicles the unlikely collaboration between two conflicting characters working together to protect their hard-won freedoms. Yet while Washington and Hamilton's different personalities often led to fruitful collaboration, their conflicting ideals also tested the boundaries of their relationship - and threatened the future of the new republic.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Biography
- De Emily en 06-14-18
De: Stephen F. Knott, y otros
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George Washington
- The Wonder of the Age
- De: John Rhodehamel
- Narrado por: Joe Barrett
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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As editor of the award-winning Library of America collection of George Washington's writings and a curator of the great man's original papers, John Rhodehamel has established himself as an authority of our nation's preeminent founding father. Rhodehamel examines George Washington as a public figure, arguing that the man - who first achieved fame in his early twenties - is inextricably bound to his mythic status.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not what I expected for an unabridged book
- De David Osborne Jr. en 04-13-17
De: John Rhodehamel
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Founding Brothers
- The Revolutionary Generation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
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An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic - John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!
- De Gotta Tellya en 08-10-16
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American Creation
- Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
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From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation's founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic leaders: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and Adams.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good But Not Quite There
- De Slide01 en 06-02-13
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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American Revolutions
- A Continental History, 1750-1804
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
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The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, Taylor's Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain's mainland colonies, fueled by local conditions, destructive, hard to quell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book on the American Revolution that I have read
- De Peter Stephens en 11-16-16
De: Alan Taylor
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Igniting the American Revolution
- 1773-1775
- De: Derek W. Beck
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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Few Americans know that the Revolutionary War did not begin with the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, but over a year earlier, in April 1775. Now historian Derek Beck draws on previously unpublished documents to tell the full story of the war before American independence - from both sides. Spanning the years 1773 to 1776, this audiobook sweeps listeners from the Boston Tea Party to the halls of Parliament - where Ben Franklin was almost run out of England for pleading on behalf of the colonies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Learned so much!
- De tracey68 en 10-15-17
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His Excellency
- George Washington
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: Nelson Runger
- Duración: 14 h y 33 m
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Acclaimed author Joseph J. Ellis penned the National Book Award-winning American Sphinx and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers, a fixture on The New York Times best seller list for an entire year, and one of the most popular history books of all time. Now this master historian turns his attention to the most exalted American hero, Founding Father and first President George Washington.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ellis is a known liar
- De Theresa en 02-21-05
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
- De: Robert Middlekauff
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
- De John en 10-06-11
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Founding Brothers
- The Revolutionary Generation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
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An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic - John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!
- De Gotta Tellya en 08-10-16
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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American Creation
- Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: John H. Mayer
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From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation's founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic leaders: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and Adams.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good But Not Quite There
- De Slide01 en 06-02-13
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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American Revolutions
- A Continental History, 1750-1804
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Mark Bramhall
- Duración: 18 h y 54 m
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The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, Taylor's Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain's mainland colonies, fueled by local conditions, destructive, hard to quell.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best book on the American Revolution that I have read
- De Peter Stephens en 11-16-16
De: Alan Taylor
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Igniting the American Revolution
- 1773-1775
- De: Derek W. Beck
- Narrado por: Jonathan Davis
- Duración: 11 h y 22 m
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Few Americans know that the Revolutionary War did not begin with the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776, but over a year earlier, in April 1775. Now historian Derek Beck draws on previously unpublished documents to tell the full story of the war before American independence - from both sides. Spanning the years 1773 to 1776, this audiobook sweeps listeners from the Boston Tea Party to the halls of Parliament - where Ben Franklin was almost run out of England for pleading on behalf of the colonies.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Learned so much!
- De tracey68 en 10-15-17
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His Excellency
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Acclaimed author Joseph J. Ellis penned the National Book Award-winning American Sphinx and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers, a fixture on The New York Times best seller list for an entire year, and one of the most popular history books of all time. Now this master historian turns his attention to the most exalted American hero, Founding Father and first President George Washington.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ellis is a known liar
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
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The Compleat Victory
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- De: Kevin Weddle
- Narrado por: Paul Heitsch
- Duración: 18 h y 24 m
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In the late summer and fall of 1777, after two years of indecisive fighting on both sides, the outcome of the American War of Independence hung in the balance. Having successfully expelled the Americans from Canada in 1776, the British were determined to end the rebellion the following year and devised what they believed a war-winning strategy, sending General John Burgoyne south to rout the Americans and take Albany.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great insight to the tactical and strategic impacts of Saratoga.
- De Ace en 12-07-24
De: Kevin Weddle
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Revolutionary Summer
- The Birth of American Independence
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were dispatching the largest armada ever to cross the Atlantic to crush the rebellion in the cradle. The Continental Congress and the Continental Army were forced to make decisions on the run, improvising as history congealed around them. In a brilliant and seamless narrative, Ellis meticulously examines the most influential figures in this propitious moment, including George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Britain’s Admiral Lord Richard and General William Howe. He weaves together the political and military experiences as two sides of a single story, and shows how events on one front influenced outcomes on the other.
Revolutionary Summer tells an old story in a new way, with a freshness at once colorful and compelling.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent
- De Andrew en 12-18-18
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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Almost a Miracle
- The American Victory in the War of Independence
- De: John Ferling
- Narrado por: David Baker
- Duración: 26 h y 57 m
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In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports listeners to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered. General George Washington put it best when he said that the American victory was "little short of a standing miracle."
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4 out of 5 stars
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Dramatic Backstory of The War for Independence
- De Amazon Customer en 11-22-15
De: John Ferling
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The British Are Coming
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- De: Rick Atkinson
- Narrado por: George Newbern, Rick Atkinson - introduction
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Abridged edition: Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first 21 months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world’s most formidable fighting force.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Start!
- De Darren Sapp en 07-14-19
De: Rick Atkinson
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America
- Penguin History of the United States, Book 1
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 21 h y 54 m
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In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from millennia past through the decades of Western colonization and conquest and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent ..
- De aintbuyinit en 09-03-18
De: Alan Taylor
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Crucible of War
- The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
- De: Fred Anderson
- Narrado por: Paul Woodson
- Duración: 29 h y 4 m
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In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War - long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution - takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain's empire and to sow the seeds of its eventual dissolution. Beginning with a skirmish in the Pennsylvania backcountry involving an inexperienced George Washington, the Iroquois chief Tanaghrisson, and the ill-fated French emissary Jumonville, Anderson reveals a chain of events that would lead to world conflagration.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Detailed History
- De Daniel en 07-15-18
De: Fred Anderson
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The American Revolution
- A History
- De: DK
- Narrado por: William Roberts
- Duración: 18 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General3.5 out of 5 stars 6
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Narración:3 out of 5 stars 6
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Historia3.5 out of 5 stars 6
The Declaration of Independence is one of the most pivotal documents in Western history, along with the Magna Carta and Emancipation Proclamation. Almost 250 years after the founding fathers signed the Declaration and heralded the birth of the United States, the story of how America overthrew the British is as meaningful today as when the ink was still wet on the page. This audiobook explains the story of every major military action with comprehensive timelines for every stage of the Revolutionary War.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great general overview!
- De Kristian K en 02-29-20
De: DK
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Power and Liberty
- Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
- De: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrado por: David Colacci
- Duración: 7 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 34
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps in the world. During these decades, Americans explored and debated all aspects of politics and constitutionalism - the nature of power, liberty, representation, rights, the division of authority between different spheres of government, sovereignty, judicial authority, and written constitutions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Provides Context for Todays Mess
- De Tad en 07-20-24
De: Gordon S. Wood
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The Quartet
- Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: Robertson Dean
- Duración: 8 h y 25 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 765
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 696
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 696
From Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew.
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2 out of 5 stars
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bias is not good history
- De Craig en 01-24-18
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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Revolutionary Characters
- What Made the Founders Different
- De: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrado por: Scott Brick
- Duración: 10 h y 2 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 185
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 107
Gordon Wood's wondrous accomplishment here is to bring these men and their times down to earth and within our reach, showing us just who they were and what drove them. In so doing, he shows us that although a lot has changed in two hundred years, to an amazing degree the virtues these founders defined for themselves are the virtues we aspire to still.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Wood clearly dislikes Adams
- De Michael en 01-15-07
De: Gordon S. Wood
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The Creation of the American Republic, 1776-1787
- De: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrado por: Joel Richards
- Duración: 24 h y 46 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 81
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 64
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 64
This classic work explains the evolution of American political thought from the Declaration of Independence to the ratification of the Constitution. In so doing, it greatly illuminates the origins of the present American political system.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This Audible book is NOT for a popular audience!
- De BigWally en 11-22-18
De: Gordon S. Wood
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1776
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,324
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14,748
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14,675
In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence, when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Front Seat on History
- De Mark en 10-22-05
De: David McCullough
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Cause
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- Stuart Jump
- 05-26-22
Interesting information
I really learned a lot about “the cause” - things I didn’t realize I was ignorant about. I highly recommend the book to anyone interested in this time period of US history
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- Flying Audiophile
- 05-21-24
Great story behind the story of the Am. Revolution!
The author did a great job of sharing behind the scenes happenings that impacted significantly on better known events in the American Revolution.
The oration was also first rate!
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- Chris
- 12-18-22
The Real Revilution
This tells the story of the American Revolution and the very important people, often behind the scenes, who held it together
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- Mike Sinks
- 05-09-22
A Crisp Review, But Little New Here
Joseph J. Ellis is a wonderful author and I've enjoyed most of his books. This one is certainly thematic. but it covers little new ground. That said, if you're looking for a quick run-through of the events and the sentiment, you could do a lot worse than this.
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- Miguel
- 08-04-22
Spectacular
Never have I heard our history in such detail. An unbelievably amazing and harsh time. In just the 10 years covered by this book; the remarkable stories and events was extremely fascinating to listen too.
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- Brian Doyle
- 03-21-23
Excellent overview of a fascinating war
Thia is an excellent, comprehensive, and unbiased story of the period surrounding the American Revolution.
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- WMB
- 04-20-23
Lots of fascinating background
The author provided an abundance of detail on parts of The Cause that I had wondered about but never took the time to examine. An educational and enjoyable read.
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- Eugene L. Burke
- 12-29-21
One favorite of mine
The author is able to treat several sides of the story/Cause and puts the reader in that place and time.
A good resource book and one that I expect to read in hard copy. 5+ stars/highly recommended..
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- Lisa
- 03-07-22
I loved this book!
I’m a Joseph Ellis fan but this is the first audible book of his I’ve listened to. I’m so glad I did! Well written and read!
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- C K Brindley
- 06-16-24
Best narrative I have listened to.
The narrator read this book like a mystery novel. I literally did not want to turn it off. Wonderful writing, great notes, and fantastic side stories. Almost perfect, for me.
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