George Washington Reconsidered

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Don 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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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
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XI
198

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Autoren-Profil (2001)

Don Higginbotham, author of George Washington and the American Military Tradition among numerous other books, is Dowd Professor of History and Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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