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Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 360 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
George Washington rescued the nation three times: first by leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, second by presiding over the Constitutional Convention that set the blueprint for the United States and ushering the Constitution through a fractious ratification process, and third by leading the nation as its first president. After the War of Independence, the states were no more than a loosely knit and contentious confederation...
Author
Publisher
Sentinel
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
xv, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When President Theodore Roosevelt welcomed the country's most visible Black man, Booker T. Washington, into his circle of counselors in 1901, the two confronted a shocking and violent wave of racist outrage. In the previous decade, Jim Crow laws had legalized discrimination in the South, eroding social and economic gains for former slaves. Lynching was on the rise, and Black Americans faced new barriers to voting. Slavery had been abolished, but...
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