George Washington:
by Flexner, James Thomas
Series: His George Washington Vol. 4 Published by : Little, Brown & Company (Boston) Physical details: xii, 554 p. ISBN:0316286028. ISSN:978031628| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
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| 900 - 999 | 973.430924 Fle (Browse shelf) | Available | In Memory of : Mrs. Irma Foreman | 39929 |
Includes index
I. The French menace. An angry inauguration --
The neutrality proclamation --
Citizen Genêt --
A darkling plain --
The Little Sarah --
The Genêt harvest --
Jefferson seeks escape --
A rocky road --
An anxious holiday --
First reckoning --
Exit Jefferson --
George Washington and slavery --
The French menace fades --
II. The British menace and conflict at home. Rumblings of war with Britain --
Two envoys --
Extreme sensibility --
The Whiskey Rebellion --
The whiskey campaign --
The Democratic societies --
Weatherbreeder --
The Jay Treaty arrives --
Tempest strikes --
The cry of treason --
Oh, what a fall --
War with an old friend --
III. Faction rampant. Better his hand had been cut off --
A brilliant stroke --
Swords with two edges --
The brink of a precipice --
Finis with Jefferson --
Thunder on the left --
Washington's farewell address --
False teeth and Stuart's Washington --
Darkness on the ocean --
You're in and I'm out --
IV. A stormy retirement. Friends and strangers --
George Washington, art collector --
Income in retirement --
The retired lion roars --
A new call to arms --
A sad affair --
Plateaus on a descending path --
A passenger only --
Black Mount Vernon --
Farmer Washington --
Death of a hero --
V. Conclusion. The second team surveyed --
George Washington.
" George Washington: Anguish and Farewell " is the fourth and finale volume of one of the most distinguished American biographies of our generation. Covering the tumultuous years of Washington's second term as President, his retirement, and his death, the book reveals the almost shattering pressures under which Washington struggled to maintain America's unity during its first great peacetime testing as an independent nation. " George Washington: Anguish and Farewell " provides a brilliant counterpoint between Washington's public and private lives. It is a narrative in which Washington not only thinks and acts, but lives. It takes the finale measure of the great President as a hero - and as a man. Profiles Washington from his second term as president to his death, focusing on his struggles to unite the new republic.
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