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John Adams and the American Revolution

By: Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Boston, Little Brown & Company: 1950

Seller ID: 10684

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild wear, bumping to boards. Dust jacket is chipped at the spine ends and the front and rear flaps are price-clipped. From the jacket: "The story of young John Adams, of the dramatic events in which he was a leader, and of the statesmen who worked with him for independence." 699 pages with Index. Illustrations, including endpaper maps and a frontispiece portrait of Adams.
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Ulysses S. Grant and the Period of National preservation and Reconstruction

By: Church, William Conant

Price: $6.50

Publisher: Garden City, New York, Garden City Publishing Company: 1926

Seller ID: 10911

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Good

Dark blue cloth, faded gilt lettering on the spine, barely visible now. Edge wear. Previous owner stamps inside the covers on the endpapers. Cracking starting at the front endpaper and there is a tear at the bottom of the front free endpaper. 473 pages with Index. Frontispiece photo of Grant in his second term as President of the United States. Good reading copy.
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American Singularity: The 1787 Northwest Ordinance, the 1862 Homestead and Morrill Acts, and the 1944 G.I. Bill

By: Hyman, Harold M.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Athens, Georgia, University of Georgia Press: 1986

Seller ID: 05559

ISBN: 0820308862

Condition: Fine

The Richard B. Russell Lectures, Number Five. Ninety-five pages with Notes and Index. The author examines the legislation that emerged from three periods of conflict in American history and explores the question of American singularity, using the Northwest Ordinance, the Homestead and Morrill Acts, and the G.I. Bill to measure individual access to land, education, and law.
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The Fall of the House of Roosevelt: Brokers of Ideas and Power from FDR to LBJ

By: Janeway, Michael

Price: $12.00

Publisher: New York, Columbia University Press: 2004

Seller ID: 05701

ISBN: 0231131089

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine+

[xiv] 284 pp., Notes, Index. Black & white photos.
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The Papers of Andrew Johnson: Volume 1, 1822-1851

By: Johnson, Andrew; Editors: Leroy P. Graf and Ralph W. Haskins

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Knoxville, Tennessee, The University of Tennessee Press: 1967

Seller ID: 10146

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Mild edge wear to boards and page block. Previous owner stamp on the endpapers. The dust jacket shows wear at the corners and chipping at the spine ends. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. 700 pages with Appendices and Index.
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The Papers of James Madison, Volume 5: 1 January 1783 - 30 April 1783

By: Madison, James; Edited by William T. Hutchinson and William M.E. Rachal

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press: 1965

Seller ID: 09091

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

The dust jacket has some discoloration and what appears to be moisture drop stains on the spine. They are not visible on the inside of the jacket and did not affect the spine of the book. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. 545 pages, with Index and illustrations.
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The Papers of James Madison, Volume 5: 3 May 1783 - 20 February 1783

By: Madison, James; Edited by William T. Hutchinson and William M.E. Rachal

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Chicago, The University of Chicago Press: 1965

Seller ID: 09092

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Fine

The dust jacket is slightly darkened on the spine and has what appears to be moisture drop stains on the spine. They are not visible on the inside of the jacket and did not affect the spine of the book. Protected now in a Mylar sleeve. 479 pages, with Index and illustrations.
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Race and Schooling in the South, 1880-1950: An Economic History

By: Margo, Robert A.

Price: $12.50

Publisher: Chicago, Illinois, University of Chicago Press: 1991

Seller ID: 05257

ISBN: 0226505103

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Very Good

Some faint highlighting of text and red underlining of a few sentences. Bookstore price sticker on front free endpaper. Clean otherwise throughout.
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The Genius of the People

By: Mee, Charles L.

Price: $8.00

Publisher: New York, Harper & Row: 1987

Seller ID: 10842

ISBN: 006015702x

Binding: Hard Cover

Condition: Near Fine

348 pages with Appendices, Notes, Bibliography, and Index. Illustrated, endpaper maps. The genius of the people as it revealed itself in the strange mix of bankers, farmers, politicians, merchants, scholars, and generals who struggled throughout the long summer of 1787 to construct a constitution unique in the history of nations.
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