Richard Brookhiser, Author . Free Press $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-684-86881-3
"The Adams family saga satisfies our curiosity about famous figures, which is part gossip—a venerable genre, from Suetonius to People—part identification," writes Brookhiser in his introduction to this quartet of lively profiles...
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Richard Brookhiser, Author . Free Press $26 (272p) ISBN 978-0-7432-2379-9
This biography ought to rehabilitate an appealing, major if second-ranking figure of the early nation. Gouverneur Morris has been overlooked, surmises Brookhiser (America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735–1918), because he was among "
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Richard Brookhiser, Author . Basic $25 (261p) ISBN 978-0-465-00819-3
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It might be thought that nothing new could be said about America's founding fathers, in the midst of the contemporary avalanche of tomes about Washington, Jefferson and other early American leaders. But...
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Richard Brookhiser, Author . Basic $27.50 (262p) ISBN 978-0-465-01355-5
In 1969, the precocious 14-year-old Brookhiser wrote a cover story for National Review
and began to correspond with founding editor William F. Buckley Jr., who serves as both hero and, sometimes, villain of this wistful memoir. After graduating...
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Richard Brookhiser, Author Free Press $24.5 (240p) ISBN 978-0-684-82291-4
A slaveowner who had no children of his own, George Washington, the ""father of our country,'' parented wife Martha's two children and treated his staff during the Revolutionary War as ""surrogate children,'' according to Brookhiser. George seems to
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Richard Brookhiser, Author Free Press $25 (240p) ISBN 978-0-684-83919-6
Brookhiser (Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington) rediscovers another founding father. Hamilton was one of the epochal figures of the Revolutionary period--he collaborated with Madison on the Federalist papers, served as secretary of the
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Richard Brookhiser, Author Free Press $19.95 (171p) ISBN 978-0-02-904721-7
Our nation's founders were sui generis WASP, whose ethic formed the American character, and ``without the continuing influence of whose values,'' we have lost our way. In a cri de coeur written with a wit that leavens his controvertible convictions...
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Richard Brookhiser. Basic, $27.99 (288p) ISBN 978-0-465-03294-5
Historian Brookhiser (James Madison) argues that, with an ungainly, backwoods persona for which he endured ridicule and depression throughout his life, Abraham Lincoln sought refuge in the words and actions of the country's Founding Fathers,...
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