Fergus M. Bordewich
1) America's great debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
x, 480 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
xv, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"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 prizewinning 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--it's possible that the United States as we know it would not exist today. The Constitution was a broad...
Author
Publisher
A Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xx, 451 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps.
Language
English
Description
"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."--
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 447 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A stunning history of the first national anti-terrorist campaign waged on American soil-when Ulysses S. Grant wielded the power of the federal government in an attempt to dismantle the Ku Klux Klan. The Ku Klux Klan, which celebrated historian Fergus Bordewich defines as "the first organized terrorist movement in American history," rose from the ashes of the Civil War. At its peak in the early 1870s, the Klan boasted many tens of thousands of members,...
5) Bound for Canaan: the epic story of the underground railroad, America's first civil rights movement
Author
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
1st Amistad pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xvii, 540 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English