George Washinigton:
by Flexner, James Thomas
Series: George Washington . Vol. 1 Published by : Little, Brown & Co (Boston) Physical details: ix, 390 p.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 900 - 999 | 973.410924 Fle (Browse shelf) | Available | In Memory of : Eric Kintsel | 42903 |
includes index and appendix A - D
I.A self-made man. Birth of a hero --
Termagant and brother --
A Fairfax world --
Surveyor's wages --
Death and a beckoning mission --
II. War in the wilderness. Forest adventure --
Triggering the seven years' war --
Defeat and perhaps disgrace --
In and out of the Army --
Nightmare --
Commander in Chief of what --
Hysteria --
Washington turns to the crown --
To death's door --
Adventures of the heart --
Wrong road to victory --
III. True happiness. Domestic enjoyments --
Country squire --
Children not his own --
British debts versus American markets --
Eyes West --
IV. Road to revolution. Dragon's teeth --
The sucking vortex --
A dreadful trust --
V. Appendix. Washington's farewell to his officers, French and Indian War.
This volume tells about considerably more than half of George Washington's life, the forty - three years that elapsed from his birth to his acceptance, at the outbreak of the American Revolution, of the command of the Continental Army. In this volume, we shall seek the actual man who was the father of our country. George Washington was, of course, born with good material to work on, but the very passion and energy of his nature made it more difficult to direct. The young man we see in this volume drives fast and swerves again and again off the track - in his dark love for his neighbor's wife, in foolhardy maneuvers during the French and Indian War and unexalted scrambles for promotion - but always he swings back again, further ahead on the road to greatness. Washington was one of the very few Presidents of the United States whose formal studies had come to an end on the elementary school level. However, he possessed a transcendent ability to learn from living. This Volume presents the experiences from which George Washington learned, and tries to show, by his actions and his written thoughts, how he reacted at each stage of his long apprenticeship up to the moment when, formed by the years into a great leader, the American hero unsheathed the revolutionary sword.