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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
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Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us -- an ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. In Benjamin Franklin, Isaacson shows how Franklin defines both his own time...
Author
Language
English
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...
Author
Publisher
Charlesbridge
Pub. Date
2009
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The thirteen ORIGINAL colonies! Together again! One night only! The children of Forest Lake Elementary School trod the boards in a dramatic reenactment of how the United States Constitution came to be. After the Revolution, the young United States was anything but united. The states acted like thirteen separate countries, with their own governments, laws, and currencies. It took bravery, smarts, and a lot of compromises to create a workable system...
Author
Publisher
F. Watts
Pub. Date
1986
Language
English
Description
Patrick Henry was a brilliant orator whose devotion to the pursuit of liberty fueled the fire of the American Revolution. As a lawyer and a member of the Virginia House of Burgess, Henry spoke eloquently of the inalienable rights all men are born with. His philosophy inspired the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and, most significantly, the Bill of Rights. Famous for the line "Give me liberty or give me death!" Patrick Henry was a man...
13) Constitution Day
Author
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Walker & Company
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
On September 17, 1787, at the State House in Philadelphia, thirty-nine men from twelve states, after months of often bitter debate, signed America's Constitution. Yet very few of the delegates, at the start, had had any intention of creating a nation that would last. Most were driven more by pragmatic, regional interests than by idealistic vision. Many were meeting for the first time, others after years of contention, and the inevitable clash of personalities...
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Language
English
Description
The best one volume biography of Madison's life, Ketcham's biography not only traces Madison's career, it gives listeners a sense of the man. As Madison said of his early years in Virginia under the study of Donald Robertson, who introduced him to thinkers like Montaigne and Montesquieu, "all that I have been in life I owe largely to that man." It also captures a side of Madison that is less rarely on display.
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Publisher
The Kane Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
On September 17 every year, we remember the signing of the Constitution by our Founders who worked hard to secure our freedoms. We also celebrate those who pledge their allegiance and become U.S. citizens.
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