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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... appeared in the late 1960s . In his introduction Smith surveyed Washing- ton studies from Washington's death to the time of his own endeavor . A major finding was that a subject that had drawn myriad biographers and other historians ...
... appearing in the 1980s dealt directly with this subject . Garry Wills's Cincinnatus : George Washington and the Enlightenment ( 1984 ) analyzes the symbolism in three of Wash- ington's most famous acts - his resignation as commander in ...
... appearing in the 1980s , remain the best of that particular genre.8 Some noteworthy contributions since then require more than passing reference . Washington's drive for both wealth and public recognition be- gan on the frontier before ...
... appearance and body language were weapons in his po- litical arsenal . What , in the final analysis , accounts for Washington's great- ness , the question raised by Gordon S. Wood in the final essay ? Wood as- suredly finds some of the ...
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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 |