Rivoluzione e fondazione

La rivoluzione americana, a lungo giudicata una non-rivoluzione rispetto a quelle francese e sovietica oppure, oltreatlantico, la vera...

From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington....

Hailed by Thomas Jefferson as "the best commentary on the principles of government which was ever written," The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 essays published by Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay from 1787 to 1788....

In the closing days of 1799, the United States was still a young republic, its uncertain future contested by the two major political parties of the day....

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....

In this under-reported and under-taught story of the American Revolution, light is shed on the little-known role Benjamin Franklin played in bringing the Northern and Southern colonies together against corrupt British rule....

Uno de los sucesos más importantes no sólo en los Estados Unidos, sino a nivel mundial....

It would be difficult to overstate the influence of The Federalist Papers. Books That Matter: The Federalist Papers gives you the chance to delve into this magisterial blueprint for yourself....

"Give me liberty, or give me death!" is a quotation attributed to Patrick Henry from his speech to the Second Virginia Convention on March 23, 1775, at St. John's Church in Richmond, Virginia....

From hot-tempered Mary Ball Washington to promiscuous Rachel Lavien Hamilton, the founding fathers’ mothers powerfully shaped their sons’ visions of domestic life...

The untold story of how America’s beloved first president, George Washington, borrowed, leveraged, and coerced his way into masterminding the key land purchase of the American era, which lead to the creation the nation’s capital city....

Common Sense is the timeless classic that inspired the 13 Colonies to fight for and declare their independence from Great Britain in the summer of 1776. This pamphlet challenged the authority of the British government and the royal monarchy to rule over the American colonists....

Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the listener from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe....

This is the first volume of distinguished historian Dumas Malone's Pulitzer Prize winning six-volume work on the life and times of Thomas Jefferson....

A New York Times best-selling historian examines how demagoguery and the populism it inspires - for good and ill - is embedded in the very soul of our nation....

In best selling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin turns to us...

In his role as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army, George Washington defeated the British and established the United States of America. Through his extraordinary military leadership, he guaranteed that the American Republic would move forward in its revolutionary experiment....

Henry Lee III was a dashing cavalry commander and hero of America's War for Independence. By now most Americans have forgotten about Light-Horse Harry Lee, the father of Confederate general Robert E. Lee, but this new biography reveals he may be one of our most fascinating figures....

Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States....

Lincoln's Last Hours describe the assassination and last moments of President Lincoln's life. They were written by Dr. Charles Leale....