His Excellency: George Washington

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To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, intelligent research, and lyric prose that experience made him one of the crucial top-rated historians of the Modern technology. Coaching his lens on a determine who occasionally turns out as far flung as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as an army and political chief and a person whose “statue-like solidity” hid volcanic energies and feelings.

 

Here is the impetuous younger officer whose impressive survival in fight part-sure him that he may no longer be killed. Here’s the unfastened-spending landowner whose money owed to English traders instilled him with a prickly resentment of imperial energy. We see the overall who misplaced extra battles than he gained and the reluctant president who attempted to waft above the partisan feuding of his cupboard. His Excellency is an impressive paintings, essential to an working out no longer most effective of its matter but additionally of the country he introduced into being.

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