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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.30924 EAN: 9780316285957 ISBN: 0316285951 Label: Little Brown & Co (T) Manufacturer: Little Brown & Co (T) Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 599 Publication Date: 1968-06 Publisher: Little Brown & Co (T) Studio: Little Brown & Co (T) Related Items:
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 Rating: - From General to PresidentAn engaging, accessible biography of George Washington during the Revolutionary War. Major events such as the Conway Cabal and the defection of Benedict Arnold are treated with some detail and authorial analysis. Flexner's final evaluation of General Washington ("Cincinnatus Assayed") is excellent at presenting Flexner's conclusion on General Washington's military performance. This chapter is also quite helpful in teasing out and summarizing the multiple threads that, through the course of the conflict, ... Read More Rating: - Washington and the virtues of the Patriot as servent.Okay, I admit it. One of the pleasures that I take as a leftist (not a liberal, mind you, but a leftist) in reviewing American history books is in the debunking of the hagiography that passes for the biographies of our great men. But for anyone who claims to want to look at history with a hard realist eye there is one uncomfortable fact that (like a well-aimed rock tossed by Clio herself) smacks you upside the head now and then. The truth is that there are great men and women. And that it is ... Read More Rating:  - The final volumeThis is part four of a four-volume series of George Washington's life and this final installment is the strongest book of all. Flexner's narrative takes the reader up to Washington's last breath and his description of his death is particularly interesting. Despite the fact that there is a plethora of interesting material on Washington's ilness and death, this book brings out facts hitherto unknown. It is reliable and accurate, but one sometimes yearns for a more enlightened and exciting presentation of ... Read More Rating: - GW: Anguish and Farewell, (1793 - 1799)This is the final volume in the set of four, in this series about George Washington, written by James Thomas Flexner; and the most intensely dramatic covering Washington's second term, his retirement and death. George Washington takes his oath for a second term as President of the United States, in a time when the young United States is growing following a time of relative peace and a policy of non-aggression with France and England. And grow the young Republic did, by leaps and bounds, but with ... Read More Rating: - GW: In the American Revolution (1775-1783)This is volume #2 of the four volume masterpiece written by James Thomas Flexner on the life of George Washington. As we have read previously, George Washington was content living a life at Mount Vernon with his wife and family, but the tides are turning in the life of George Washington, bringing him to the forefront of leadership... albeit woefully prepared. Now, in the skillfully written volume, we see the wartime deeds and the soul searching that Washington goes through. A man thrust from the ... Read More 
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