books by Catherine Drinker Bowen

books by Catherine Drinker Bowen

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John Adams and the American Revolution

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Little Brown & Company, 1950

Great Biography!
John Adams and the American Revolution by Catherine Drinker Bowen is a great biography of John Adams. Ms. Bowen spends a great amount of time on the childhood and young manhood of Adams. She also touches on his great marriage life. This is a book that I enjoyed ...

Miracle At Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May - September 1787

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Back Bay Books, 1986

Miracle at Philadelphia is a good popular history of the U.S. Constitutional Convention of 1787
Catherine Drinker Bowen's "Miracle at Philadelphia" was first published in 1966. It has been reprinted and widely used in classrooms ever since that time. The book is well written in an easy to understand style which will aid the reader who wants a first hand account ...

Adventures of a biographer

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Little, Brown, 1959

Facile but quaint
In Adventures of a Biographer, Catherine Drinker Bowen (1897-1973) provides a loosely connected series of essays about four biographies (and one false start), two of which became Book-of-the-Month Club selections. The strength of the book lies in the author's command ...

The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Little Brown & Co., 1986

The Most Dangerous Man In America, Scenes from B. Franklin..
Most illuminating, well written ,historical accuracy not found in our educatonal institutions. The views of Franklin's life are incisive. The work demonstrates that he, as select other men, had the vision, the education , the conviction and the ability to follow his ...

Free Artist - The Story Of Anton And Nicholas Rubinstein
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Carveth Press, 2007

Free Artist - THE STORY OF ANTON AND NICHOLAS RUBINSTEIN BY CATHERINE DRINKER BOWEN Nicholas and Anton Rubinstein in 1868 To FRANCES WOODWARD CURTIS Dear Frances, There comes a point in the making of every book when the writer, intoxicated by sight of the goal, believes he has actually said what he meant to say, and soars off in a half-filled ...

The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke (1552-1634)

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Little, Brown & Company, 1957

The patron saint of ordered liberty
The Anglosaxon/anglophone world, and indirectly, most of Europe and the "free world" circa 2006, owe the unquestioned primacy of ordered liberty more to Coke than to any other single individual. For, he was not only a mere academic proponent, interpreter and "codifier" ...

Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention May to September 1787
Bowen, Catherine Drinker

Blackstone Audiobooks, Inc., 2008

This is the story of the stormy, brilliant session of 1787 in Philadelphia which saw the birth of the Constitution of the United States. Looked at straight from the records, the Federal Convention is startlingly fresh and new.

The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke : 1552-1634

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Little Brown & Co (P), 1990

Entertaining and informative
One of the best books ever written about lawyers, judges and prosecutors. Anyone familier with the legal system will find that little has changed in 400 years. Catherine Bowen was a fine writer and an excellent "popular" historian. Her biography of Lord Coke not ...

Miracle at Philadelphia
Catherine Drinker Bowen

Blackstone Audiobooks, 1995

Brings to life the hot summer months of argument and agreement, debate and de cision of 1787 for the Constitutional Convention.

Beloved Friend: The Story of Tchaikowsky and Nadejda Von Meck

Catherine Drinker Bowen

Greenwood Pub Group, 1975

The Romance of Tchaikowsky and Nadejda von Meck...
The true story of Peter Tchaikowsky and Nadejda von Meck has never been told until now. That the wife of a nobleman, a woman who was beautiful, popular, fabulously wealthy -- the mother of eleven children -- for years lavished her attention and practically devoted her ...