The men who made the Nation

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Author(s): Edwin Erle Sparks
Publisher: Macmillan
Year: 1922

Language: English
Pages: 427
City: New York

Benjamin Franklin , the Colonial Agent in England
Samuel Adams , the Man of the Town Meeting
John Adams, the Partisan of Independence
Robert Morris , the Financier of the Revolution 119
CHAPTER V
Alexander Hamilton, the Advocate of Stronger Government . 151
CHAPTER VI
George Washington , the First President
181
CHAPTER VII
Thomas Jefferson, the Exponent of Democracy 218
Henry Clay, the Father of Public Improvements 255
CHAPTER IX
282 Andrew Jackson, the People's President
CHAPTER X
Daniel Webster, the Defender of the Constitution .
318
CHAPTER XI
Horace Greeley, the Anti-slavery Editor 347
CHAPTER XII
Abraham Lincoln , a New Type of American
378
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