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His Excellency

George Washington

By Joseph J. Ellis

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| Paperback | 9781400032532

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To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore,Continue

To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose “statue-like solidity” concealed volcanic energies and emotions.

Here is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. Here is the free-spending landowner whose debts to English merchants instilled him with a prickly resentment of imperial power. We see the general who lost more battles than he won and the reluctant president who tried to float above the partisan feuding of his cabinet. His Excellency is a magnificent work, indispensable to an understanding not only of its subject but also of the nation he brought into being.

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  • His Excellency By Joseph J. Ellis

    Ellis is a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and the author of the best-selling books Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation and American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson. His latest volume chronicles the life of America's first pres ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • His Excellency: George Washington By Joseph J. Ellis

    Like many of us, historian Joseph Ellis long considered George Washington a distant, almost unapproachable icon, "aloof and silent, like the man in the moon." Then Ellis began research for a chapter about Washington's farewell address in Founding Bro ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

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    First in war, first in peace and first in the hearts of his fellow men...

    During our visit to Mount Vernon (George Washington's home in Virginia) I was confronted by the fact that I didn't know all that much about one of the greatest American heroes. This book fills that gap quite nicely. It concentrates on George Washington himself - his character, his background and his ... (continue)

    During our visit to Mount Vernon (George Washington's home in Virginia) I was confronted by the fact that I didn't know all that much about one of the greatest American heroes. This book fills that gap quite nicely. It concentrates on George Washington himself - his character, his background and his motivation to do what he did - without digressing too much.
    Ellis has done all his research himself and bases the bulk of his book on George Washington's papers.
    A very nice introduction, all in all.

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