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Founding Fathers Set
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This Library of America Founding Fathers set includes the following books:

The Debate on the Constitution:
Part One: September 1787 to February 1788

The Debate on the Constitution:
Part Two: January to August 1788
| 2,389 pages

Hundreds of newspaper articles, pamphlets, speeches, and private letters chart the creation of the Constitution.

John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1755-1775

John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1775-1783
| 1,554 pages

Hundreds of essays, reports, resolutions, and memoranda written by John Adams between 1755 and 1783, along with extensive selections from his diary during this period and passages from his unfinished autobiography.

Benjamin Franklin: Silence Dogood, The Busy-Body, and Early Writings

Benjamin Franklin: Autobiography, Poor Richard, and Later Writings
| 1,639 pages

Essays, news articles, pamphlets, personal letters, and his classic autobiography demonstrate why Franklin was the most powerful writer of his time.

Alexander Hamilton: Writings | 1,108 pages
Includes all of his contributions to The Federalist and eyewitness accounts of the Hamilton-Burr duel.

Thomas Jefferson: Writings | 1,600 pages
Over 250 letters, his autobiography, and public writings about politics, education, science, botany, and much more.

James Madison: Writings | 966 pages
Essays, speeches, private memoranda, and letters illuminate why Madison remains the most important thinker in American political history.

John Marshall: Writings | 950 pages
200 Supreme Court rulings, letters, speeches, essays, and other documents written between 1779 and 1835

Thomas Paine: Collected Writings | 906 pages
Common SenseThe CrisisRights of ManThe Age of Reason • pamphlets, articles, & letters

George Washington: Writings | 1,149 pages
Over 440 letters, orders, addresses, and other documents illuminate the indispensable founder of the American republic.

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The American Revolution: Writings from the War of Independence | 874 pages

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