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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.4 - AR Pts: 13
Lexile measure
1410L
Language
English
Description
"During 1954-1955, John F. Kennedy, then a U.S. Senator, chose eight of his historical colleagues to profile for their acts of astounding integrity in the face of overwhelming opposition. These heroes include John Quincy Adams, Daniel Webster, Thomas Hart Benton, and Robert A. Taft." "Awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1957, Profiles in Courage - now reissued in this handsome hard-cover edition, featuring a new introduction by Caroline Kennedy, as well...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Indivisible, historian and law professor Joel Richard Paul tells how Daniel Webster, a young New Hampshire attorney turned politician, rose to national prominence through his powerful oratory and popularized the ideals of American nationalism that helped forge our nation's identity. In his speeches, Webster argued that the Constitution was not a compact made by states but an expression of the will of all Americans. As these ideas took root, they...
Author
Language
English
Description
"From ... bestselling historian H.W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and to decide the future of our democracy. In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion...
Series
Criterion collection volume 214
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Having promised his soul to the Devil in exchange for good fortune, Jabez Stone asks the talented lawyer Daniel Webster to get him out of the bargain.
9) Deliberate evil: Nathaniel Hawthorne, Daniel Webster, and the 1830 murder of a Salem slave trader
Author
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Set in New York's literary world, Shortcut to Happiness is a contemporary re-telling of the classic short story "The Devil and Daniel Webster". Jabez Stone, a down on his luck writer, sells his soul to the Devil in exchange for fame and fortune. But, when things don't turn out as planned, Stone ultimately decides that he wants his old life again and enlists the help of Daniel Webster in order to win his soul back from Satan, herself!
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
In the title story, a trial for a man's soul becomes a trial of America itself, of all that is best and worst in a great and tumultous new country. This collection also includes six more short stories that depict diverse historical elements in America's social tapestry with memorable and amusing characters.
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