Fergus M Bordewich
1) America's great debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union
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[2012]
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The spellbinding story behind the longest debate in U.S. Senate history: the Compromise of 1850, which brought together Senate luminaries on the eve of the Civil War in a desperate effort to save the Union.
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2016.
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The little known story of perhaps the most productive Congress in US history, the First Federal Congress of 1789-1791. The First Congress was the most important in US history, says author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would actually function. Had it failed-as many at the time feared it would-its possible that the United States as we know it would not exist today. The Constitution was a broad set of principles....
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.3 - AR Pts: 35
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A history of the Underground Railroad offers insight into the role played by westward expansion, the spiritual beliefs that motivated each side of the conflict, and the efforts of black and white citizens to save tens of thousands of lives.
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p2008
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Washington, D.C., is home to the most influential power brokers in the world. But how did we come to call D.C.-a place one contemporary observer called a mere swamp "producing nothing except myriads of toads and frogs (of enormous size)," a district that was strategically indefensible, captive to the politics of slavery, and a target of unbridled land speculation-our nation's capital?...
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2020
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"The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War -- a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the conflict. This [...] new perspective on the Civil War overturns the popular conception that Abraham Lincoln single-handedly led the Union to victory and gives us a vivid account of the essential role Congress played in winning the war. Building a riveting narrative around four influential members of Congress--Thaddeus...
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2001
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A memoir in which the author recalls his youth and the guilt he suffered after his mother, attempting to jump off a runaway horse, fell under the galloping hooves of the horse he was riding and was killed; and tells of his attempts as an adult to come to terms with his loss and reaffirm her place in his heart.
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