George Washington ReconsideredDon Higginbotham University of Virginia Press, 2001 - 336 Seiten George Washington, heroic general of the Revolution, master of Mount Vernon, and first president of the United States, remains the most enigmatic figure of the founding generation, with historians and the public at large still arguing over the strengths of his character and the nature of his intellectual and political contributions to the early republic. Representing the finest recent scholarship on Washington, these thirteen essays by the leading scholars in the field strike a balance between Washington's personal life and character and his public life as a soldier and political figure. Editor Don Higginbotham provides an introduction about Washington and his treatment by historians, and an afterword devoted to how the American people have viewed Washington, including the 1999 commemorations of the bicentennial of his death. With three essays written specifically for this volume, George Washington Reconsidered is the first collection of its kind to be published in over thirty years. |
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... French and Indian War frontier commander , the Revolutionary War commander in chief , and the first president of the United States . A few of these offerings deal with both the public and the private man . A third category of writings ...
... French and Indian War hero and well - traveled aristocrat from an influential colony made it easier for his countrymen to elevate him to an exalted state from the beginning of his Revolutionary career . Schwartz , contrary to Wills ...
... French minister . 15 Washington , however , displayed sound reasoning when he removed another Virginian from his diplomatic post , James Monroe , who as minister to France made known in Paris his distaste for the Jay Treaty . Washington ...
... French and Indian War . My essay on " Washington and the Colonial Military Tradition " shows that he not only succeeded in his mission but turned his regiment into a re- markably fine unit , one that drew praise from British officers as ...
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III | 15 |
IV | 38 |
V | 67 |
VI | 94 |
VII | 114 |
VIII | 139 |
IX | 141 |
X | 165 |
XII | 212 |
XIII | 250 |
XIV | 273 |
XV | 275 |
XVI | 287 |
XVII | 309 |
XVIII | 325 |
XI | 198 |
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For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions James R. Gaines Eingeschränkte Leseprobe - 2007 |