Edward J. Larson
Born
in Mansfield, Ohio, The United States
September 21, 1953
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“As a fellow member of Virginia’s House of Burgesses, Washington had known Jefferson since 1768, and, at age nineteen, James Monroe had crossed the Delaware River with Washington on that already legendary Christmas night in 1776 for the battles that revived the patriot cause.”
― The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783â€�1789
― The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783â€�1789
“Clarence Darrow," the New York Times proclaimed in its lead story, "bearded the lion of Fundamentalism today, faced William Jennings Bryan and a court room filled with believers of the literal word of the Bible and with a hunch of his shoulders and a thumb in his suspenders defied every belief they hold sacred.”
― Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
― Summer for the Gods: The Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate Over Science and Religion
“Washington resorted to this procedure during the 1780s, with the healthy teeth coming from his slaves, who received thirteen shillings per tooth, or about one-third of what Le Moyer typically paid on the free market.”
― The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783â€�1789
― The Return of George Washington: Uniting the States, 1783â€�1789
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Anti-Intellectualism in American Life by Richard Hofstadter, General Nonfiction, 1964
"A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide by Samantha Power, General Nonfiction, 2003
The Haunted Land: Facing Europe's Ghosts After Communism by Tina Rosenberg, General Nonfiction, 1996
Toms River: A Story of Science and Salvation by Dan Fagin, General Nonfiction, 2014
Growing Up by Russell Baker, Autobiography, 1983
Mary Chesnut's Civil War by C. Vann Woodward, History, 1982
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