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Revolutionaries
by Jack Rakove
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Like-New/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0618267468
- ISBN 13
- 9780618267460
- Seller
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Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey, United States
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About This Item
$87 Pages. First Edition by the Full Number Line. Dust jacket Not price-clipped.
This well-written early history of our country written by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author, Jack Rakove, comes in a dust jacket that only has a tiny tear on one corner but otherwise is in new condition. The interior book has no visible extraneous markings throughout the book and thus has all the printing in like-new condition and the sewn-in bindings also in like-new condition.
This volume of American History will be carefully wrapped up and then boxed and sent right away to you from here in New Jersey and comes to you with our utmost appreciation for your interest and for your order.
This well-written early history of our country written by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author, Jack Rakove, comes in a dust jacket that only has a tiny tear on one corner but otherwise is in new condition. The interior book has no visible extraneous markings throughout the book and thus has all the printing in like-new condition and the sewn-in bindings also in like-new condition.
This volume of American History will be carefully wrapped up and then boxed and sent right away to you from here in New Jersey and comes to you with our utmost appreciation for your interest and for your order.
Synopsis
In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted primarily to family, craft, and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become "revolutionary" by ambition, but when events in Boston escalated, they found themselves thrust into a crisis that moved, in a matter of months, from protest to war. In this remarkable book, the historian Jack Rakove shows how the private lives of these men were suddenly transformed into public careers—how Washington became a strategist, Franklin a pioneering cultural diplomat, Madison a sophisticated constitutional thinker, and Hamilton a brilliant policymaker. Rakove shakes off accepted notions of these men as godlike visionaries, focusing instead on the evolution of their ideas and the crystallizing of their purpose. In Revolutionaries , we see the founders before they were fully formed leaders, as individuals whose lives were radically altered by the explosive events of the mid-1770s. They were ordinary men who became extraordinary—a transformation that finally has the literary treatment it deserves. Spanning the two crucial decades of the country’s birth, from 1773 to 1792, Revolutionaries uses little-known stories of these famous (and not so famous) men to capture—in a way no single biography ever could—the intensely creative period of the republic’s founding. From the Boston Tea Party to the First Continental Congress, from Trenton to Valley Forge, from the ratification of the Constitution to the disputes that led to our two-party system, Rakove explores the competing views of politics, war, diplomacy, and society that shaped our nation. Thoughtful, clear-minded, and persuasive, Revolutionaries is a majestic blend of narrative and intellectual history, one of those rare books that makes us think afresh about how the country came to be, and why the idea of America endures.
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- Bookseller
- Mountain Gull Trading Company
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 676
- Title
- Revolutionaries
- Author
- Jack Rakove
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0618267468
- ISBN 13
- 9780618267460
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 2010-05-11
- Pages
- 487
- Size
- 6 1/4" x 9 1/4"
- Keywords
- First Editions; American History; American Revolution; Revolutionary War;
- Bookseller catalogs
- American Revolutionary War books; First Editions; American History;
Terms of Sale
Mountain Gull Trading Company
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About the Seller
Mountain Gull Trading Company
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Lake Hopatcong, New Jersey
About Mountain Gull Trading Company
Mountain Gull Trading Company has been in business for over 20 years. We used to specialize in books on specific areas of American History as our store started as one that sold books to historical reenacting participants at historical reenactments, yet now we have evolved to carrying books on numerous other subject areas in addition to our American History core.
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