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Founding Partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the Brawling Birth of American Politics (Random House Large Print)

by H.W. Brands

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1774: The Long Year of Revolution

by Mary Beth Norton (Goodreads Author)

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America's Constitution: A Biography

by Akhil Reed Amar

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Bear, Otter and the Kid (Bear, Otter and the Kid #1) by T.J. Klune

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“I don’t think we’ll solve the problem of the deficit until three things happen: We need more discipline on spending in Congress. We need a constitutional amendment requiring Congress to balance the budget. And we need to give our presidents a line-item veto.”
― Ronald Reagan, An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography

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“all of us need to be reminded that the federal government did not create the states, the states created the federal government. . .”
― Ronald Reagan, An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography

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“Liberty has never come from government,” Woodrow Wilson, one of FDR’s predecessors and another Democrat, said. “The history of liberty is the history of limitation of government’s power, not the increase of it.”
― Ronald Reagan, An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography

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“As I have often said, governments don’t produce economic growth, people do. What government can do is encourage Americans to tap their well of ingenuity and unleash their entrepreneurial spirit, then get out of the way.”
― Ronald Reagan, An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography

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“I have often wondered about a paradox in American government: Every four years, voters elect a president and in California a governor, the only officeholders elected by all the people; then, the same people in their individual districts turn around and elect a legislature and congress that is often controlled by the opposing party, enabling it to prevent the president or governor from carrying out the things they elected him or her to do.”
― Ronald Reagan, An American Life: An Enhanced eBook with CBS Video: The Autobiography

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