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George Washington
Viking
November 2005
On Sale: November 8, 2005
352 pages
ISBN: 1400032539
EAN: 9781400032532
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Non-Fiction Biography
To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J.
Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and
lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians
of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who
sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore,
Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political
leader and a man whose “statue-like solidity” concealed
volcanic energies and emotions. Here is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous
survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be
killed. Here is the free-spending landowner whose debts to
English merchants instilled him with a prickly resentment of
imperial power. We see the general who lost more battles
than he won and the reluctant president who tried to float
above the partisan feuding of his cabinet. His Excellency is
a magnificent work, indispensable to an understanding not
only of its subject but also of the nation he brought into
being.
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