Author: John MarshallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Life of George Washington
Author: John MarshallGeorge Washington, a Biography
Author: Douglas Southall FreemanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
All Cloudless Glory
Author: Harrison ClarkPublisher: Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 9780895264459
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 522
Book Description
Volume Two takes the nation's first president from the end of his career as a great general, through his final days at Mount Vernon, to the often tumultuous years of his presidency.
Life of George Washington : in five volumes. 4 (1857)
Author: Washington IrvingLife of George Washington
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 554
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George Washington
Author: Woodrow WilsonGeorge Washington: A Life in Books
Author: Kevin J. HayesPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190456698
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 409
Book Description
When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly dismissed him as "too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation." Yet Adams, as well as the majority of the men who knew Washington in his life, were unaware of his singular devotion to self-improvement. Based on a comprehensive amount of research at the Library of Congress, the collections at Mount Vernon, and rare book archives scattered across the country, Kevin J. Hayes corrects this misconception and reconstructs in vivid detail the active intellectual life that has gone largely unnoticed in conventional narratives of Washington. Despite being a lifelong reader, Washington felt an acute sense of embarrassment about his relative lack of formal education and cultural sophistication, and in this sparkling literary biography, Hayes illustrates just how tirelessly Washington worked to improve. Beginning with the primers, forgotten periodicals, conduct books, and classic eighteenth-century novels such as Tom Jones that shaped Washington's early life, Hayes studies Washington's letters and journals, charting the many ways the books of his upbringing affected decisions before and during the Revolutionary War. The final section of the book covers the voluminous reading that occurred during Washington's presidency and his retirement at Mount Vernon. Throughout, Hayes examines Washington's writing as well as his reading, from The Journal of Major George Washington through his Farewell Address. The sheer breadth of titles under review here allow readers to glimpse Washington's views on foreign policy, economics, the law, art, slavery, marriage, and religion-and how those views shaped the young nation.. Ultimately, this sharply written biography offers a fresh perspective on America's Father, uncovering the ideas that shaped his intellectual journey and, subsequently, the development of America.
Life of George Washington in Five Volumes
Author: Washington IrvingGeorge Washington
Author: Washington IrvingPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306805936
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 802
Book Description
Washington Irving's Life of George Washington (published in five volumes in 1856-59) was the product of his last years and remains his most personal work. Christened with the name of the great general, Irving was blessed by Washington while still a boy of seven, and later came to know many of the prominent figures of the Revolution. In these pages he describes them using firsthand source material and observation. The result is a book which is fascinating not only for its subject (the American Revolution), but also for how it reveals in illuminating detail the personality and humanity of a now remote, towering icon. Here is an intimate portrait of Washington the man, from Virginia youth to colonial commander to commander-in-chief of the patriot army to first president and great guiding force of the American federation. But one cannot read Irving's Life without marveling at the supreme art behind it, for his biography is foremost a work of literature. Charles Neider's abridgment and editing of Irving's long out-of-print classic has created a literary work comparable in importance and elegance to the original. George Washington, A Biography, Neider's title for his edition of Irving's Life, makes the work accessible to modern audiences. The extensive introduction provides a detailed analysis of Irving's life and times, and the difficulties he faced as he worked against his own failing health to finish what he felt was his masterpiece. This new edition of the superb biography of America's first citizen by America's first literary artist remains as fresh and unique today as when it was penned.
George Washington
Author: William Roscoe ThayerPublisher:
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Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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