Compares and contrasts the lives and ideas of seven of the founders of the United States of America--Washington, Hamilton, Franklin, Jefferson, Madison, Burr, and John Adams.
Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the epic struggle to create a United States
Simon, James F
2003
Chronicles the debate over the role of the states and the power of the Supreme Court played out in American history by Thomas Jefferson and John Marshall.
George Washington, the Constitution, and the presidency
Rosenburg, John M
1998
A biography of the first president of the newly formed United States, George Washington, from his involvement in the Constitutional Convention in 1787, through his two terms as president, up to his death in 1799.
In this critical reinterpretation of Hamilton's life, the first Secretary of the Treasury is perceived as an ambitious man whose self-appointed mission was to create a new social order in America based not on status but on money.
Collection of key primary documents relating to the founding of the United States, illustrating the debates on the principles and practices of good government that were waged from 1775 to 1792, and presenting contending views on the founding-era arguments about the meaning and practice of democracy.
