Product Description: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson: Creating the American Republic reveals the thoughts and actions of two founders of the American Republic who could hardly have been more dissimilar in background and personality. Both their friendship and rivalry were born in the cauldron of the American Revolution and nurtured by the flames of ambition and clashing political philosophies...read more

Product Description: George Mason and George Washington:The Power of Principle is a unique book combining narrative and primary documents to reveal the complex intertwined lives of George Mason and George Washington. Neighboring planters in northern Virginia, Mason and Washington could not have been more dissimilar in appearance and personality...read more

Product Description: Thomas Jefferson's letters have been described as "a rich repast to mind and heart." Through more than 200 letters A Circle of Friends: Thomas Jefferson and His Women Correspondents offers a unique and intimate view of Jefferson and some of his most trusted confidantes...read more

Product Description: "I am very madly in love with you," wrote Lyndon Johnson to his future wife, Bird Taylor. James Madison sent off this plaintive line to his wife Dolley: "Every thing around and within reminds me that you are absent." In this inspiring collection of correspondence between U...read more

Provides a collection of letters between United States presidents and their daughters.

Product Description: The revolutionary career of John Paul Jones, which is the subject of this memoir, needs no elaboration here. His voyages, first on the Alfred under Capt. Dudley Saltonstall, and later at the helm of the sloops Providence, Ranger and Ariel, the old East Indiaman Duras (renamed the Bonhomme Richard), and the American-built frigate Alliance are thoroughly recounted here...read more

Provides insights into the writing and editing of the historical document

Product Description: Book by Beckley, John James, Gawalt, Gerard W.

Product Description: Gerard W. Gawalt has collected essays that explore the critical period in the development of the legal profession from 1865 to 1900, when law replaced religion as the controlling element in American society and lawyers clearly established themselves as the formulators, advocates, and arbiters of the law...read more