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History Of The United States Of America
Henry Adams
During The Administrations Of Thomas Jefferson
Library of America
July 1986
On Sale: July 4, 1986
1308 pages ISBN: 0940450348 EAN: 9780940450349 Hardcover (reprint)
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Non-Fiction History
This monumental work, complete in two volumes, culminated
Henry Adams' lifelong fascination with the American past.
First published in nine volumes from 1889-91, it has been
judged one of the greatest historical works in English --
and yet has been out of print for several decades. Adams' History traces the formative period of American
nationality from the rise of Thomas Jefferson's Republican
party through the War of 1812. Hoping to keep the United
States out of Europe's Napoleonic wars, Jefferson's
pacificism instead antagonizes both France and England, the
two greatest military powers in the world. While the states
threaten to duplicate the map of Europe by dissolving into
separate, squabbling sections, Madison leads the country
into a war with British regulars and Indian tribes that he
is ill equipped to fight. Yet time is on the side of the
American people -- who, despite statesmen and generals,
emerge from the conflict a single nation ready to flex its
burgeoning muscles. In Adams' ironic narrative, personalities like Bonaparte and
Aaron Burr, William "Tippecanoe" Harrison and Andrew
Jackson, Shawnee leader Tecumseh and Haitian revolutionary
Toussaint Louverture act their glittering parts against a
background of inexorable historical forces that transform
the United States from a pre-industrial backwater into an
emergent world power.
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