Download or read book The Life and Works of Francis Hopkinson written by George Everett Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Life and Works of Francis Hopkinson written by George Everett Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Felix O Day written by Francis Hopkinson Smith and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-02 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Felix O'Day is a Quixotic Irishman who offers up his title and cash to save his father from dishonor. Then he ought to travel to New York on the lookout for his silly young wife, who has fled and is inflicting havoc along the street. The scene is set in New York. While Felix has the reader's full compassion, and the exquisite characters are sincerely rendered, the unconventional lacks the flicker of many previous masterpieces. Felix O'Day, an Irish baronet, travels to New York City in pursuit of his spouse, Barbara, who left him for a guy named Dalton greater than a yr before. Dalton became also liable for O'Day's loss of cash. O'Day methods a neighborhood priest for help in finding Barbara in order that he can help her. Barbara is located by way of Martha, her former nurse, and Martha's brother Stephen, who attempted to assist O'Day in finding Barbara. However, after they determined Barbara, they had no concept in which to locate O'Day. Barbara now is living at Martha's condo to protect herself from Dalton, who abuses her.
Download or read book An Ode for the 4th of July 1788 written by Francis Hopkinson and published by . This book was released on 1788 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The First American written by H. W. Brands and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 785 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE FINALIST • Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this “thorough biography of ... America’s first Renaissance man” (The Washington Post) by the two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, bestselling historian, and author of Our First Civil War. "The authoritative Franklin biography for our time.” —Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers Wit, diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin's "life is one every American should know well, and it has not been told better than by Mr. Brands" (The Dallas Morning News). From penniless runaway to highly successful printer, from ardently loyal subject of Britain to architect of an alliance with France that ensured America’s independence, Franklin went from obscurity to become one of the world’s most admired figures, whose circle included the likes of Voltaire, Hume, Burke, and Kant. Drawing on previously unpublished letters and a host of other sources, acclaimed historian H. W. Brands has written a thoroughly engaging biography of the eighteenth-century genius. A much needed reminder of Franklin’s greatness and humanity, The First American is a work of meticulous scholarship that provides a magnificent tour of a legendary historical figure, a vital era in American life, and the countless arenas in which the protean Franklin left his legacy. Look for H.W. Brands's other biographies: ANDREW JACKSON, THE MAN WHO SAVED THE UNION (Ulysses S. Grant), TRAITOR TO HIS CLASS (Franklin Roosevelt) and REAGAN.
Download or read book The Life and Works of Francis Hopkinson written by George Everett Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1926-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bonded Leather binding
Download or read book The Tides of Barnegat written by Francis Hopkinson Smith and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Literature of the American People written by Arthur Hobson Quinn and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1951 with total page 1200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Battle of the Kegs written by Francis Hopkinson and published by . This book was released on 1807 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Signing Their Lives Away written by Denise Kiernan and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2009 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents the lives, deaths, and scandals involving the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence, including John Adams, John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson.
Download or read book A Gentleman Vagabond and Some Others written by Francis Hopkinson Smith and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Pretty Story written by Francis Hopkinson and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although written as a children's story with the history of the English colonization of America in allegory, in reality it is political satire presenting the American grievances with England prior to the Revolution.
Download or read book Colonel Carter s Christmas written by Francis Hopkinson Smith and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty written by Benjamin H. Irvin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clothed in Robes of Sovereignty examines the material artifacts, festivities, and rituals by which Congress endeavored not only to assert its political legitimacy and to bolster the war effort, but ultimately to glorify the United States and to win the allegiance of the American people. But fact, as Benjamin H. Irvin demonstrates, the "people out of doors"--including the working poor, women, loyalists, Native Americans and others not represented in Congress--vigorously contested the trappings of nationhood into which Congress had enfolded them.
Download or read book The British Are Coming written by Rick Atkinson and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2019-05-14 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary first volume of his new trilogy about the American Revolution Rick Atkinson, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning An Army at Dawn and two other superb books about World War II, has long been admired for his deeply researched, stunningly vivid narrative histories. Now he turns his attention to a new war, and in the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy he recounts the first twenty-one months of America’s violent war for independence. From the battles at Lexington and Concord in spring 1775 to those at Trenton and Princeton in winter 1777, American militiamen and then the ragged Continental Army take on the world’s most formidable fighting force. It is a gripping saga alive with astonishing characters: Henry Knox, the former bookseller with an uncanny understanding of artillery; Nathanael Greene, the blue-eyed bumpkin who becomes a brilliant battle captain; Benjamin Franklin, the self-made man who proves to be the wiliest of diplomats; George Washington, the commander in chief who learns the difficult art of leadership when the war seems all but lost. The story is also told from the British perspective, making the mortal conflict between the redcoats and the rebels all the more compelling. Full of riveting details and untold stories, The British Are Coming is a tale of heroes and knaves, of sacrifice and blunder, of redemption and profound suffering. Rick Atkinson has given stirring new life to the first act of our country’s creation drama.
Download or read book Franklin Washington written by Edward J. Larson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Larson's elegantly written dual biography reveals that the partnership of Franklin and Washington was indispensable to the success of the Revolution." —Gordon S. Wood From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a masterful, first-of-its-kind dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, illuminating their partnership's enduring importance. NATIONAL BESTSELLER • One of Washington Post's "10 Books to Read in February" • One of USA Today’s “Must-Read Books" of Winter 2020 • One of Publishers Weekly's "Top Ten" Spring 2020 Memoirs/Biographies Theirs was a three-decade-long bond that, more than any other pairing, would forge the United States. Vastly different men, Benjamin Franklin—an abolitionist freethinker from the urban north—and George Washington—a slaveholding general from the agrarian south—were the indispensable authors of American independence and the two key partners in the attempt to craft a more perfect union at the Constitutional Convention, held in Franklin’s Philadelphia and presided over by Washington. And yet their teamwork has been little remarked upon in the centuries since. Illuminating Franklin and Washington’s relationship with striking new detail and energy, Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Edward J. Larson shows that theirs was truly an intimate working friendship that amplified the talents of each for collective advancement of the American project. After long supporting British rule, both Franklin and Washington became key early proponents of independence. Their friendship gained historical significance during the American Revolution, when Franklin led America’s diplomatic mission in Europe (securing money and an alliance with France) and Washington commanded the Continental Army. Victory required both of these efforts to succeed, and success, in turn, required their mutual coordination and cooperation. In the 1780s, the two sought to strengthen the union, leading to the framing and ratification of the Constitution, the founding document that bears their stamp. Franklin and Washington—the two most revered figures in the early republic—staked their lives and fortunes on the American experiment in liberty and were committed to its preservation. Today the United States is the world’s great superpower, and yet we also wrestle with the government Franklin and Washington created more than two centuries ago—the power of the executive branch, the principle of checks and balances, the electoral college—as well as the wounds of their compromise over slavery. Now, as the founding institutions appear under new stress, it is time to understand their origins through the fresh lens of Larson’s Franklin & Washington, a major addition to the literature of the founding era.
Download or read book Peter written by Francis Hopkinson Smith and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 510 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Frances Hopkinson Smith's family-oriented tale "Peter: A Novel of Which He Is Not the Hero" (1908) is the story of a bank worker and his interfering sister, Felicia, who visits him in New York each winter. It also portrays the nuptials of their nephew and niece, Ruth and Jack. The work examines the increasing materialism and changing attitudes of people at the turn of the 20th century and suggests that the affection and support of family elders plays a pivotal role in young peoples' lives
