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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... Mount Vernon Ladies ' Association ) Washington's family , engraving by Edward Savage The evolution of Mount Vernon Mount Vernon , east front Mount Vernon , west front 198 212 250 275 287 309 325 331 Frontispiece ΙΟΙ 103 103 ...
... Mount Vernon Ladies ' Association Washington Papers , Library of Congress John C. Fitzpatrick , ed . , The Writings of George Washington ... , 39 vols . ( Washington , D.C. , 1931-44 ) W. W. Abbot et al . , eds . , The Papers of George ...
... Mount Vernon : At Home in Revolutionary America ( 1998 ) .10 With no national capitol and no presidential mansion , Mount Vernon took on a symbolic and physical presence unique in American history , a mansion that every American felt he ...
... Mount Vernon to extend his sympathies to Martha Washington , who resented his presence there.13 Even before his presidency , Washington had terminated a thirty - year friendship with George Mason , who opposed ratification of the ...
... Mount Vernon . Bruce A. Ragsdale describes how Washington worked to free himself from his indebtedness to Robert Cary & Company by cutting back on luxuries and buying on credit at the same time that he switched from tobacco to more ...
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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 |