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 Letter from Washington to Benjamin Franklin Dated Philadelphia Dec 28 1778 Introducing the Marquis de Lafayette to Franklin who was Then in Paris written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Adopted Son written by David A. Clary and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2008 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A critical analysis of the unique friendship between American general George Washington and the young French Marquis de Lafayette describes how their bond resulted in extraordinary success on the battlefield and in diplomatic circles, aided an American victory in the Revolutionary War, and paved the way for the French Revolution. Reprint. 30,000 first printing.
Download or read book Lafayette in the Somewhat United States written by Sarah Vowell and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington’s trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette. Chronicling General Lafayette’s years in Washington’s army, Vowell reflects on the ideals of the American Revolution versus the reality of the Revolutionary War. Riding shotgun with Lafayette, Vowell swerves from the high-minded debates of Independence Hall to the frozen wasteland of Valley Forge, from bloody battlefields to the Palace of Versailles, bumping into John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Lord Cornwallis, Benjamin Franklin, Marie Antoinette and various kings, Quakers and redcoats along the way. Drawn to the patriots’ war out of a lust for glory, Enlightenment ideas and the traditional French hatred for the British, young Lafayette crossed the Atlantic expecting to join forces with an undivided people, encountering instead fault lines between the Continental Congress and the Continental Army, rebel and loyalist inhabitants, and a conspiracy to fire George Washington, the one man holding together the rickety, seemingly doomed patriot cause. While Vowell’s yarn is full of the bickering and infighting that marks the American past—and present—her telling of the Revolution is just as much a story of friendship: between Washington and Lafayette, between the Americans and their French allies and, most of all between Lafayette and the American people. Coinciding with one of the most contentious presidential elections in American history, Vowell lingers over the elderly Lafayette’s sentimental return tour of America in 1824, when three fourths of the population of New York City turned out to welcome him ashore. As a Frenchman and the last surviving general of the Continental Army, Lafayette belonged to neither North nor South, to no political party or faction. He was a walking, talking reminder of the sacrifices and bravery of the revolutionary generation and what the founders hoped this country could be. His return was not just a reunion with his beloved Americans it was a reunion for Americans with their own astonishing, singular past. Vowell’s narrative look at our somewhat united states is humorous, irreverent and wholly original.
Download or read book Letters of Washington Franklin and Lafayette written by and published by . This book was released on 1744 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Franklin documents include a draft of a letter from Franklin to President Washington, giving Franklin's opinion of the Constitution; a letter signed by Franklin and by John Adams, dated November 20, 1778, giving instructions to W.T. Franklin on collecting intelligence at Dieppe, France; a letter from Franklin to his wife, dated October 5, 1768; and a list of core religious principles, among other items.
Download or read book The Marquis written by Laura Auricchio and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2015 American Library in Paris Book Award The Marquis de Lafayette at age nineteen volunteered to fight under George Washington and became the French hero of the American Revolution. In this major biography Laura Auricchio looks past the storybook hero and selfless champion of righteous causes who cast aside family and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and fully reveals a man driven by dreams of glory only to be felled by tragic, human weaknesses. Drawing on substantial new research conducted in libraries, archives, museums, and private homes in France and the United States, Auricchio, gives us history on a grand scale revealing the man and his complex life, while challenging and exploring the complicated myths that have surrounded his name for more than two centuries
Download or read book Exhibition Washington Lafayette Franklin written by Fogg Art Museum and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lafayette the Friend of Washington written by Marshall Solomon Snow and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marquis de Lafayette and the French written by Christine Dugan and published by Teacher Created Materials. This book was released on 2017-01-13 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this high-interest, nonfiction text, The Marquis de Lafayette and the French, readers will learn about the fascinating life of the Marquis de Lafayette and his influence on Alexander Hamilton and the Revolutionary War. Through the use of dynamic primary sources like maps and letters, middle school students will be engaged as they read about history and build their literacy skills. Supporting current social studies standards, this full-color text includes intriguing images, interesting sidebars, a glossary, and other important text features to support learning and strengthen key comprehension skills. Challenging activities require students to use text-evidence to connect back to what they've read.
Download or read book Washington Lafayette Franklin written by Fogg Art Museum and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Lafayette and the Close of the American Revolution written by Louis Gottschalk and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The American Revolution 1745 1784 written by George Washington and published by Powerthink Publishing. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perhaps no other revolt against the mother country, giving birth to a land, parallels the American Revolution. For, from this revolution on a land separated by thousands of miles and an ocean, new ideas and identities were born. These ideas have sparked the call of freedom around the world as the American Revolution has inspired self-determination seekers for over two hundred years. We hear their voices as we read their words, untainted by historical speculation of scholars and promoters of historical theories. Their words and actions set the stage for the making of the American government, and the creation of the single most important documents offering freedom to its citizens ever put by men into words on paper; the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States of America. Included Works: (over 80 accounts) Two Sieges of Louisbourg by Bradley Washington's Expedition to the Ohio by Washington Benjamin Franklin's Plan of Union by Franklin Braddock's Defeat by Washington Deportation of the Acadians of Nova Scotia by Bradley Wolfe Defeats Montcalm at Quebec by Captain Knox In Opposition to Writs of Assistance by Otis Stamp Act and its Repeal by Lechy Pitt's Protest Against the Stamp Act by Pitt Declaration of Rights by Delegates from Nine Colonies Repeal of the Stamp Act by Secretary Conway Brant to Lord Germaine by Brant Examination Before the House of Commons by Franklin Daniel Boone Migrates to Kentucky Spanish Settle in California by Royce An Eye-witness Describes the Boston Massacre by Tudor Indentured "White Slaves" in the Colonies by Eddis Boston Tea Party by Hutchinson First Continental Congress by Adams Logan to Lord Dunmore by Logan Patrick Henry's Call to Arms by Wirt "Give Me Liberty Or Give Me Death" Speech by Henry Washington's Appointment as Commander-in-chief by Irving Washington Speech of Acceptance by Washington Battle of Lexington Battle of Concord by The Reverend Emerson Farewell to Mrs. Washington Washington at Cambridge Battle of Bunker Hill Paul Revere Tells of His Midnight Ride by Revere Dramatic Capture of Ticonderoga by Allen Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence Washington's Capture of Boston by Washington Writing of The Declaration of Independence by Jefferson Jefferson's Original Draft of The Declaration by Jefferson Declaration of Independence by Jefferson Why Jefferson Was Chosen To Write The Declaration by Adams A Call For Independence by Paine Siege and Capture of Boston by Washington Evacuation of New York by General Clinton Battle of White Plains by General Heath Washington, Discouraged, Appeals to Congress by Washington Battles of Trenton and Princeton by General Washington Samuel Adams on American Independence by Adams Battles of Trenton and Princeton by Lecky Defeat and Surrender of Burgoyne Lafayette in the American Revolution Washington at Valley Forge by Waldo Letters of Lafayette and Washington France Recognizes American Independence by Franklin Warning Against Conciliation by Henry Capture of Vincennes by Clark Wayne Surprises and Storms Stony Point by Washington Capture of the Serapis by the Bon Homme Richard Arnold's Treason by Washington and Greene Andre, Facing Execution, Writes to Washington Execution of Andre by General Heath Last Days of the Revolution by Madison Washington's Services in the War by Lecky Battle of Yorktown by General Cornwallis Washington Reports the Yorktown Surrender by Washington Articles of Capitulation, Yorktown Explaining the Treaty of Paris by Adams, Franklin, Jay and Laurens Meaning of American Democracy by Jean and de Chastellux Washington Resigns His Commission To Congress by Rev. Gordon Washington Bids His Army Farewell by Washington Treaty of Paris Negotiations
Download or read book Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution Selected Letters and Papers 1776 1790 written by Le Marquis de Lafayette and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 519 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume, the fifth in a distinguished and admired series, includes correspondence with George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, Henry Knox, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Patrick Henry, French foreign minister Vergennes, Spanish foreign minister Floridablanca, and Lafayette 's wife, Adrienne. The book opens with Lafayette's return to France after Yorktown to press the benefits of that victory. Displaying his role as Franklin 's "political aide-de-camp" in the diplomatic negotiations that culminated in the treaty of peace, the documents also give evidence of his personal mediation with members of the French government as well as with the King. The documents chronicling his tour of America in 1784 clearly show that Lafayette intended it to be more than a triumphal display. They reveal his desire to promote in the individual states as well as among the American people at large a sense of unity that would produce a stronger government and thus ensure the survival of those liberties for which Lafayette had been struggling. The volume ends with clear evidence that his interest did not wane with the close of the war but found renewed vigor in his determination to secure and extend those "rights of mankind" that he espoused.
Download or read book Lafayette written by JoAnn A. Grote and published by Infobase Learning. This book was released on 2013 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of the French nobleman involved in the American Revolutionary War.
Download or read book Lafayette in the Age of the American Revolution written by Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert Du Motier marquis de Lafayette and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a compilation of the letters of General Lafayette, ranging in topics from military to political to personal matters and correspondence. The editors have written translation and editorial explanations, and provide background and otherwise secondary information to accompany the letters.
Download or read book The Lives of Franklin and Washington written by Peter Parley and published by . This book was released on 1839 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Revolutionary Friends written by Selene Castrovilla and published by Astra Publishing House. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Society of School Librarians International Book Award Honor California Reading Association Eureka! Nonfiction Honor Bank Street College Best Children's Book of the Year Booklist Top Ten Biography for Youth Young fans of the smash Broadway hit "Hamilton" will enjoy this narrative nonfiction picture book story about the important friendship between George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette during the Revolutionary War. Lafayette has come to America to offer his services to the patriotic cause. Inexperienced but dedicated, he is a much-needed ally and not only earns a military position with the Continental Army but also Washington's respect and admiration. This picture book presents the human side of history, revealing the bond between two famous Revolutionary figures. Both the author and illustrator worked with experts and primary sources to represent both patriots and the war accurately and fairly.
