His Excellency: George Washington

His Excellency: George Washington
Joseph J. Ellis (Author)
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Colonial Period

National Bestseller

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.

• Rank: #9755 in Books
• Published on: 2005-11-08
• Released on: 2005-11-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.98" h x .73" w x 5.21" l, .79 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 352 pages

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payment | shipping rates | returns His Excellency: George Washington Product Category :Books ISBN :1400040310 Title :His Excellency: George Washington EAN :9781400040315 Authors :Joseph J. Ellis Binding :Hardcover Publisher :Knopf Publication Date :2004-10-26 Pages :352 Signed :False First Edition :False Dust Jacket :False List Price (MSRP) :26.95 Height :1.3000 inches Width :6.4000 inches Length :9.3000 inches Weight :2.0500 pounds Keywords :United States, Presidents Heads of State, Washington