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Product Description: As his presidency drew to a close, Woodrow Wilson came to realize the claim history would soon have on the documentary record of his life and work, of which he had been a rather inattentive keeper. While some of his more important manuscripts had been kept at his home on S Street in Washington, D...read more
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9780813926544 | Univ of Virginia Pr, October 1, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: As his presidency drew to a close, Woodrow Wilson came to realize the claim history would soon have on the documentary record of his life and work, of which he had been a rather inattentive keeper.

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Product Description: The persecution and suffering of the Armenian people, a religious and cultural minority in the Ottoman Empire, reached a peak in the era of World War I at the hands of the Turks. Between 1915 and 1925 as many as 1.5 million Armenian men, women, and children died in Ottoman Turkey, victims of execution, starvation, and death marches to the Syrian desert...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780813922676 | Univ of Virginia Pr, March 1, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: The persecution and suffering of the Armenian people, a religious and cultural minority in the Ottoman Empire, reached a peak in the era of World War I at the hands of the Turks.

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Product Description: Few figures hold as mythic a place in America's historical consciousness as John Brown. A fervent abolitionist, his New England reserve tempered by a childhood on the Ohio frontier, Brown advocated arming fugitive slaves to fight for their freedom, an idea that impressed Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Henry David Thoreau...read more
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9780813921327 | Univ of Virginia Pr, October 1, 2002, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Few figures hold as mythic a place in America's historical consciousness as John Brown.

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9780813923086 | Univ of Virginia Pr, January 1, 2004, cover price $16.50 | About this edition: Few figures hold as mythic a place in America's historical consciousness as John Brown.

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Product Description: This book examines the famous Jefferson document that foreshadowed the Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute and shepherded it through a decade-long struggle for adoption...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Merrill D. Peterson (editor) and R. C. Vaughan (editor)
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9780521892988 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 1, 2003, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This book examines the famous Jefferson document that foreshadowed the Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.

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9780945707301 | Amer Political Biography Pr, January 31, 2001, cover price $37.50

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9780945707318 | Amer Political Biography Pr, January 31, 2001, cover price $37.50

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Product Description: In this absorbing memoir, Merrill D. Peterson traces his progress from a young Kansas Republican to a "Left Liberal," Democrat by reconstructing how the New Republic singularly influenced his intellectual development and academic career during some of the most turbulent years in American history—the final years of the Great Depression through World War II and the beginnings of the Cold War...read more
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9780826212573 | Univ of Missouri Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: In this absorbing memoir, Merrill D.

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Product Description: Since its publication in 1960, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind has become a classic of historical scholarship. In it Merrill D. Peterson charts Thomas Jefferson's influence upon American thought and imagination since his death in 1826...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780195015393, titled "Jefferson Image in the American Mind" | Oxford Univ Pr, February 15, 1970, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Since its publication in 1960, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind has become a classic of historical scholarship.

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9780813918518 | Univ of Virginia Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Since its publication in 1960, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind has become a classic of historical scholarship.
9780195006988 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, November 1, 1985), cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Since its publication in 1960, The Jefferson Image in the American Mind has become a classic of historical scholarship.

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9780912627632 | Natl Park Service, December 1, 1997, cover price $55.01

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Product Description: Volume XXVII continues the major themes from previous volumes of the series including President as Political Leader, the President and Communication, Organizing Approaches to Policymaking, the President and the International Setting, and the President and Public Philosophy.
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9780761805441 | 29 edition (Univ Pr of Amer, November 1, 1996), cover price $73.99 | About this edition: Volume XXVII continues the major themes from previous volumes of the series including President as Political Leader, the President and Communication, Organizing Approaches to Policymaking, the President and the International Setting, and the President and Public Philosophy.

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Product Description: Lincoln's death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merrill Peterson, "sorrow--indescribable sorrow" swept the nation. After lying in state in Washington, Lincoln's body was carried by a special funeral train to Springfield, Illinois, stopping in major cities along the way; perhaps a million people viewed the remains as memorial orations rang out and the world chorused its sincere condolences...read more
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9780195065701 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 21, 1994, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: A noted historian traces the place of Abraham Lincoln in the imaginations of Americans from the time of his death to the present day, showing how people have shaped the image of the great president to suit their own agendas.

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9780195096453 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, June 1, 1995), cover price $34.99 | About this edition: Lincoln's death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions.

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Product Description: Merrill D. Peterson has gleaned Jefferson's basic ideas on politics and produced a book containing the core of the third president's political thought. From Jefferson's public papers as well as his private letters, Peterson brings together fundamental views that reveal the legacy of Jefferson's republicanism...read more
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9781882886012 | Thomas Jefferson Memorial, December 1, 1993, cover price $20.95 | About this edition: Merrill D.

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Product Description: Many visitors over the generations have recorded their impressions of Monticello and its creator. These writings, especialy those from Jefferson's lifetime, preserve important details about him and the house and grounds that might otherwise have been lost...read more
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9780813912318 | Univ of Virginia Pr, September 1, 1989, cover price $39.50 | About this edition: Many visitors over the generations have recorded their impressions of Monticello and its creator.

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9780813912325 | Univ of Virginia Pr, August 1, 1989, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Many visitors over the generations have recorded their impressions of Monticello and its creator.

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Looks at the three most influential politicians of the 1830s and 1840s and discusses the issues with which they were involved
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9780195038774 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 15, 1987, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Looks at the three most influential politicians of the 1830s and 1840s and discusses the issues with which they were involved

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9780195056860 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 8, 1988), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Looks at the three most influential politicians of the 1830s and 1840s and discusses the issues with which they were involved

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Product Description: This book examines the famous Jefferson document that foreshadowed the Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom. Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute and shepherded it through a decade-long struggle for adoption...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521343299 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $137.00 | About this edition: This book examines the famous Jefferson document that foreshadowed the Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty, the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom.

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9780813911762 | Univ of Virginia Pr, September 1, 1987, cover price $3.95

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Twenty-five essays discuss Jefferson's accomplishments as a statesman, diplomat, scientist, architect, farmer, and politician
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9780684180694 | Scribner, February 1, 1987, cover price $79.00 | About this edition: Twenty-five essays discuss Jefferson's accomplishments as a statesman, diplomat, scientist, architect, farmer, and politician

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Gathers Jefferson's letters to politicians, scientists, and family members, public speeches, travel essays, and political writings
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9780940450165 | Library of America, August 1, 1984, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Gathers Jefferson's letters to politicians, scientists, and family members, public speeches, travel essays, and political writings

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9780807108949 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, April 1, 1982, cover price $17.50

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9780807124970 | Louisiana State Univ Pr, December 1, 1982, cover price $20.95

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9780195023558 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 9, 1978, cover price $39.95

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Presents a collection of writings by Thomas Jefferson. (view table of contents)
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9780140150803 | Penguin USA, October 1, 1977, cover price $20.00 | About this edition: Presents a collection of writings by Thomas Jefferson.

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Describes the life of the American statesman and president, emphasizing his contributions to fostering the United States' political and cultural development
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9780195000542 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 15, 1970, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The definitive life of Jefferson in one volume, this biography relates Jefferson's private life and thought to his prominent public position and reveals the rich complexity of his development.

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9780195019094 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 11, 1986, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Describes the life of the American statesman and president, emphasizing his contributions to fostering the United States' political and cultural development

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Product Description: In one volume, Democracy, Liberty, and Property provides an overview of the state constitutional conventions held in the 1820s. With topics as relevant today as they were then, this collection of essential primary sources sheds light on many of the enduring issues of liberty...read more
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9780865977884, titled "Democracy, Liberty, and Property: The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820s" | Liberty Fund, September 30, 2010, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: In one volume, Democracy, Liberty, and Property provides an overview of the state constitutional conventions held in the 1820s.

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9780865977891, titled "Democracy, Liberty, and Property: The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820s" | Reprint edition (Liberty Fund, September 30, 2010), cover price $17.50 | About this edition: In one volume, Democracy, Liberty, and Property provides an overview of the state constitutional conventions held in the 1820s.
9780672600623, titled "Democracy, Liberty and Property: The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820's" | Bobbs-Merrill Co, December 1, 1966, cover price $7.35

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