History of the many cultures which formed the American colonies, from the first voyages of discovery and exploration, to the drawing up and ratification of the Constitution

The Colonial Experience

HAWKE, David Freeman

PRENTICE/HALL

Some light wear on edges and covers. Pagers clean

Franklin

Harper&Row

David Freeman Hawke's biography of Thomas Paine is reissued here in paperback. Hawke describes a life of incredible diversity, from Paine's humble beginnings as a corset maker in England, through the dramatic roles he played in the American and French Revolutions, his friendships with Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, his imprisonment in France during the Terror, his trial and banishment from England for publishing "The Rights of Man", and the pathos of his declining years. Paine emerges from this book as a complex, flawed man, temperamental and jealous of his reputation, but also scholarly, gentle and affectionate.

Paine

History

John D. Rockefeller saved every newspaper clipping about himself, saved every letter he received and copies of every letter and interoffice memo he wrote, kept ledgers listing every cent he earned, spent, gave away. John D. is the first biography in fifteen years and the first ever to use the scrapbooks in the Rockefeller Archives. The story begins with John D's father, "Big Bill" Rockefeller, scoundrel and bigamist, who instilled in John D. (no one ever called him Johnny) a respect for business and especially for business ethics. While still in his teens, John D. left home and got a job as a clerk/bookkeeper in a commission house; four years later, just three months short of his twentieth birthday, John D. opened his own commission house. By 1875 John D. was one of the richest men in America (and on Jay Gould's death in 1892 he would become the richest) and went into semiretirement. He was thirty-six years old.In addition to telling the story of John D's life, David Freeman Hawke seeks to answer three central questions in John D's life: Why was he one of the most reviled men in American history? Why was his fortune so much larger than that of his Standard Oil colleagues? How could this truly religious and by his own lights honest man for decades break the law? David Hawke has blended personal and corporate history in a fascinating and gripping story.DAVID FREEMAN HAWKE is Professor of History at Lehman College of the City University of New York. John D. is his eleventh book.

John D. The Founding Father of the Rockefellers by David Freeman Hawke (1980-05-03)

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Hard cover book. Dust jacket in very good shape. Book has minimal wear. Overall in very good condition.

Nuts and Bolts of the Past: A History of American Technology, 1776-1860

Americas

Paine (Harper colophon books)

FIRST HARPER PERENNIAL EDITION. 1989 trade paperback, David Freeman Hawke (Everyday Life in Early America). A history of the men and the ideas that produced our factories, industry, and transportation systems. - Google Books

Nuts and Bolts of the Past: A History of American Technology : 1776-1860

Harpercollins Childrens Books

The story of the Declaration of Independence--its genesis, drafting, ratification, and influence--is as complex as any great vision and realization. Did it merely sum up the prevailing thought of its day, or was it an advanced expression of uniquely American ideals? Were its signers aware of the Declaration's full revolutionary significance, or did they see it as the rationale for an economic dispute? Such questions face any historian of the period and require an extraordinary control of materials, a sensitive reading of character and text, and a lucid gift for recreating a time more than two centuries ago for scholars and general readers alike. David Hawke possesses all of these qualities in abundance. His portraits of Thomas Jefferson, who wrote the Declaration, and John Adams, who led the fight for its adoption, are wonderfully complex and sound. As he says in his new introduction, "the main thesis [of the book] is that the Declaration could only have been written by Thomas Jefferson, not just because of his talent with words, but also because he, coming from an agrarian South, held ideas about society and government not shared by northerners." A double portrait of men who began as allies, became enemies, and at the end of their lives resolved their antagonism into deep respect and friendship, this book provides fascinating reading for anyone interested in the foundations of the American experiment.

A Transaction Of Free Men: The Birth And Course Of The Declaration Of Independence

Da Capo

In 1804 Lewis and Clark set off to explore the new lands of the Louisiana Purchase. They were acting as the eyes and ears of President Thomas Jefferson, who had an insatiable curiosity about what lay between the Mississippi and the Pacific. One contingency for which they were not prepared was the awesome geography of the Rocky Mountains. Including excerpts from Lewis and Clark's journals and putting their scientific achievements in context, David Hawke presents a riveting story of this dramatic journey.

Those Tremendous Mountains: The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Lewis, Meriwether

Literature & Fiction

Norton

“Thomas Paine, a singularly injudicious man, requires an exceptionally judicious biographer, and in Mr. Hawke he has at last got one. . . . An absorbing narrative that moves briskly through two revolutions and three countries.” ―The New Yorker John Adams said that “without the pen of Paine the sword of Washington would have been wielded in vain.” Yet of all the great figures of the American Revolution, Thomas Paine has been least understood. Now David Freeman Hawke has written a rich biography of the brilliant propagandist who wrote Common Sense, The Age of Reason, and The Rights of Man. Thomas Paine lived a life of great diversity, from poor beginnings through the dramatic roles he played in the American and French revolutions, his friendship with Benjamin Franklin, his imprisonment in France during the Terror, his trial and banishment from England, and the pathos of his declining years. Temperamental and jealous of his reputation, Paine was nevertheless a gentle and unworldly man. In this portrait he comes to life as one of the great revolutionary idealists.

Historical

W.W.Norton&Company

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The Colonial Experience

Franklin

Paine

John D. The Founding Father of the Rockefellers by David Freeman Hawke (1980-05-03)

Nuts and Bolts of the Past: A History of American Technology, 1776-1860

Paine (Harper colophon books)

Nuts and Bolts of the Past: A History of American Technology : 1776-1860

A Transaction Of Free Men: The Birth And Course Of The Declaration Of Independence

Those Tremendous Mountains: The Story of the Lewis and Clark Expedition

Paine