Fergus M Bordewich

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1) The First Congress: how James Madison, George Washington, and a group of extraordinary men invented the government

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Bordewich, Fergus M

Pub. Date

2016.

Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Language

English

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The First Congress was the most important in U.S. 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 set of principles. It was left to the members of the First Congress and President George Washington to create the machinery...

2) America's great debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union

Author

Bordewich, Fergus M

Pub. Date

2012.

Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

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English

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The Mexican War introduced vast new territories into the United States, among them California and the present-day Southwest. When gold was discovered in California in the great Gold Rush of 1849, the population swelled, and settlers petitioned for admission to the Union. But the U.S. Senate was precariously balanced with fifteen free states and fifteen slave states. Up to this point, states had been admitted in pairs, one free, and one slave, to preserve...

3) Washington: the making of the American capital

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Bordewich, Fergus M

Pub. Date

[2008]

Edition

First edition.

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English

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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?...

4) Bound for Canaan: the Underground Railroad and the war for the soul of America

Author

Bordewich, Fergus M

Pub. Date

2005.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

5) Klan war: Ulysses S. Grant and the battle to save Reconstruction

Author

Bordewich, Fergus M

Pub. Date

2023.

Edition

First edition.

Language

English

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"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,...

6) Congress at war: how Republican reformers fought the Civil War, defied Lincoln, ended slavery, and remade America

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Bordewich, Fergus M

Pub. Date

2020.

Edition

First edition.

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English

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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...