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Ann Rinaldi _ Time Enough for Drums
I find American girls have a spirit and honesty about them that is most refreshing.
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Laurie Halse Anderson _ Chains
This is not our fight,' the old man said. 'British or American, that is not the choice. You must choose your own side, find your road through the valley of darkness that will lead you to the river Jordan.
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Laurie Halse Anderson _ Chains
Has she received any letters from Lockton?'The question hit me like a bucket of cold water. 'You asking me to spy again?''Listen,' he started, 'Our freedom-'I did not let him continue. 'You are blind. They don't want us free. They just want liberty for themselves.
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Ron Chernow _ Washington: A Life
An essential difference between the American and French revolutions was that the American version allowed a search for many truths, while French zealots tried to impose a single sacred truth that allowed no deviation. " page 714
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Sarah Vowell _ Lafayette in the Somewhat
No one recorded what those marches were, though decades later there was an apocryphal and later-debunked story the one of the songs the British played was the on-the-nose "The World Turned Upside Down.
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Joseph J. Ellis _ American Sphinx: The Character
Jefferson appeared to his enemies as an American version of Candide; Hamilton as an American Machiavelli.
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Joseph J. Ellis _ Founding Brothers: The
Lincoln once said that America was founded on a proposition that was written by Jefferson in 1776. We are really founded on an argument about what that proposition means.
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