Richard Brookhiser

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1) James Madison

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Brookhiser, Richard

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An examination of the life of President James Madison and his influence on America.

2) George Washington on leadership

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Brookhiser, Richard

Pub. Date

c2008

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FIRST IN WAR, FIRST IN PEACE, FIRST IN LEADERSHIP. Richard Brookhiser's revolutionary biography, Founding Father , took George Washington off the dollar bill and made him live. Now, with his trademark wit and precision, Brookhiser expertly examines the details of Washington's life that fullscale biographies sweep over, to instruct us in true leadership. George Washington on Leadership is a textbook look at Washington's three spectacularly successful...

3) Alexander Hamilton, American

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Brookhiser, Richard

Pub. Date

[1999]

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Alexander Hamilton is one of the least understood, most important, and most impassioned and inspiring of the founding fathers. An impoverished immigrant when he first came to American shores at age fifteen, Hamilton defined what it meant to be American in an age when the definition was up for grabs. He pounced on the opportunities available in New York and rose rapidly as a patriot, war hero, prominent lawyer, pioneering journalist, and author of...

4) America's first dynasty: the Adamses, 1735-1918

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Brookhiser, Richard

Pub. Date

c2002

5) Founding father: rediscovering George Washington

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Brookhiser, Richard

Pub. Date

[1996]

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A moral biography of George Washington as a founder and father of the United States, surveying his role in the Revolutionary War, the Constitution debate, and his presidency, with emphasis on his nature, morals, and ideas.