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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 973.3092 EAN: 9781559279932 Edition: Abridged Format: Abridged, Audiobook, CD ISBN: 1559279931 Label: Macmillan Audio Manufacturer: Macmillan Audio Number Of Items: 3 Number Of Pages: 4 Publication Date: January 07, 2004 Publisher: Macmillan Audio Studio: Macmillan Audio Related Items:
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 Rating: - George Washington as a LeaderThis is one more work in The American Presidents series. The stage is set by one quotation from the Introduction by the series editor, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. (Page xvii): "The greatest presidents in the scholars' rankings, Washington, Lincoln, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, were leaders who confronted and overcame the republic's greatest crises." One fact that sets this book apart from others is co-author James MacGregor Burns, eminent political scientist and a leading authority on leadership. ... Read More Rating:  - George Washington and the Shaping of the American PresidencyGeorge Washington has a deservedly iconic, larger than life, stature among Americans; and yet his own reserve and aloofness, combined with the 18th Century world in which he lived, make him difficult for most Americans today to understand. With President's Day approaching and our country in the midst of a presidential election, I wanted to revisit Washington. This biography by James MacGregor Burns and Susan Dunn, part of the "American Presidents" series, tells a great deal in short compass about Washington ... Read More Rating: - Excellent bookThis book is part of the American Presidents series. As with all of these books, they are well wriiten and very informative about every stage of their lives not just the political. They also inlcude detail that I rarely see in other biographical books concerning the political machinations of their time. Rating: - Another good short biography in American President seriesThis book is cowritten by one of my favorite authors from my college days, decades ago. James MacGregor Burns wrote a classic about presidential and congressional politics entitled "The Deadlock of Democracy." That book was about the interaction between presidential and congressional parties and how they act as checks on one another. In this book, we see the formation of our political system. Beyond what the Constitution set forth, the nature of our federal system is, in great part, defined by what Washington made ... Read More Rating: - A Good Beginning To Learn About Our 1st PresidentThis book, along with the others in the series, is a short biography of George Washington. There are plenty of other book about him that deal much more in depth, but this book makes for a good beginning. He was a man of tremendous ambition that was concerned with climbing the social ladder. Indeed, he was one of the richest men in Virginia at the time. But the fact remains that after the end of the Revolutionary War he resigned his commison and went back to his Mount Vernon farm. Instead of taking ... Read More 
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