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James T. Flexner
Flexner, historian, art critic, award-winning biographer of George Washington, Benedict Arnold and Alexander Hamilton, refers to himself as a maverick . In this autobiography, he reveals his life as an…
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States Dyckman American Loyalist
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This tale of two families is set on a grand scale, as James Thomas Flexner brings his talents to bear on his own noteworthy heritage. An American Saga is an…
This a portrait of Gilbert Stuart, painter of George Washington and other founding fathers, who once shied away from a self-portrait he had begun to please his bride. Flexner presents…
This autobiography provides an insight into the life of James Thomas Flexner, a writer of biographies and studies of many well-known individuals, and details the influences of such friends as…
James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer for most of his adult life. After several years spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune after graduating…
Written as a character study, Young Hamilton, explores the first twenty-six years of Alexander Hamilton’s life and is designed to reveal how Hamilton’s early years shaped him into the statesman…
A chronicle of the lives of three men, John Fitch, James Rumsey and Robert Fulton, all striving to invent the first steamboat. The author shows the pattern of their interwoven…
Biographies featuring the pioneers of American medicine. The author combines curious medical lore with little-known facts of early American history. Among those included are Morgan, founder of the first medical…
James T Flexner
Skillfully and cunningly, Steel weaves a story of a nation in transition, of war and peace, of political skullduggery and environmental disaster, of generational struggles crowded with ambition, corruption, and…
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Describes Washington’s part in the Constitutional Convention and his work in organizing the new government.
So how did Willy MacKenzie, scion of one of America s wealthiest and most eccentric families, get elected in the first place? To discover the answer to this puzzling question…
