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Washington : a life

In "Washington : a Life" celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation, dashing forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and revealing an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people...

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Main Author: Chernow, Ron.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
Subjects and Genres:
Washington, George, > 1732-1799.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Generals > United States > Biography.
United States > History > 1783-1815.
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Table of Contents:
  • Prelude: the portrait artist
  • PART ONE: The frontiersman. A short-lived family
  • Fortune's favorite
  • Wilderness mission
  • Bloodbath
  • Shades of death
  • The soul of an army
  • A votary to love
  • Darling of a grateful country
  • PART TWO: The planter. The man of mode
  • A certain species of property
  • The prodigy
  • Providence
  • A world of his own
  • The Asiatic prince
  • A shock of electricity
  • PART THREE: The general. The glorious game
  • Magnificent bluff
  • Land of freedom
  • The heights
  • All London afloat
  • Disaster
  • An indecisive mind
  • The crossing
  • The busy scenes of a camp
  • Darkness visible
  • Rapping a demigod over the knuckles
  • A dreary kind of place
  • The long retreat
  • Pests of society
  • The storm thickens
  • The traitor
  • Mutiny
  • Plundering scoundrels
  • The world turned upside down
  • Man of moderation
  • Closing the drama with applause
  • Cincinnatus
  • PART FOUR: The statesman. American celebrity
  • Gentleman farmer
  • Devil's bargain
  • The ruins of the past
  • A masterly hand
  • A house on fire
  • Rising sun
  • Mounting the seat
  • PART FIVE: The president. The place of execution
  • Acting the presidency
  • The cares of office
  • Rays of genius
  • The traveling presidency
  • The state of the president
  • Capital matters
  • Southern exposure
  • Running into extremes
  • A tissue of machinations
  • Citizen Genet
  • Bring out your dead
  • Hercules in the field
  • Crowns and coronets
  • Mad dog
  • The colossus of the people
  • The master of farewells
  • Exiting the stage
  • PART SIX:The legend. Samson and Solomon
  • A mind on the stretch
  • Freedom
  • Homecoming.

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