George Washington ReconsideredDon Higginbotham University of Virginia Press, 2001 - 336 páginas 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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... American EDMUND S. MORGAN 13. The Greatness of George Washington GORDON S. WOOD Afterword : Washington and the American People Index Illustrations ( All illustrations courtesy of the Mount Vernon Ladies ' Association ) Washington's ...
... American Inde- pendence ( 1951 ) , he thoroughly documented Washington's early commit- ment to colonial rights and his aggressive actions as commander in chief of the Continental army , behavior that helped move Americans in the di ...
... American Protes- tantism may have exercised a potent part in shaping Washington's image for the middling and lower ... American society that still owed much to Puritan values . If we see concurrently in Revolutionary America descriptions ...
... America ( 1998 ) .10 With no national capitol and no presidential mansion , Mount Vernon took on a symbolic and physical presence unique in American history , a mansion that every American felt he or she was entitled to visit and be ...
... American Char- acter ( 1996 ) , provides our best understanding of Washington's thinking about the American Union - how it came about and how to preserve it . Spalding and Garrity prove that the Farewell Address is much more than an ...
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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 |
XI | 198 |