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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... Wash- ington , in progress ( Charlottesville , Va . , 1983— ) , cited by series : Colonial Series ( 10 vols . , completed ) Revolutionary Series ( 10 of 40 vols . published to date ) Confederation Series ( 6 vols . , completed ) ...
... Wash- ington worshipers . If these authors went too far , in a decade noted for its cynicism and Mencken - like irreverence , they may have been a fairly healthy corrective to the multitude of hagiographers like Weems and Mar- shall ...
... Washing- ton's public image , including his part in creating it . It began earlier , with Marcus Cunliffe's brief but ... Wash- ington's most famous acts - his resignation as commander in chief of the army in 1783 , his crucial support ...
... Wash- ington's background as a highly visible French and Indian War hero and well - traveled aristocrat from an influential colony made it easier for his countrymen to elevate him to an exalted state from the beginning of his ...
... Wash- ington's Mount Vernon : At Home in Revolutionary America ( 1998 ) .10 With no national capitol and no ... Washing- ton ( 1980 ) , the Virginian had a greater appreciation of the ingredients of national strength than any other ...
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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 |