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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... reputation gained in the backcountry to boost his political influence and social and economic standing in the tide- water . The centerpiece of his life among the gentry was Mount Vernon , a Virginia great house of his creation . The ...
... reputation was already frozen in history . Or so they wanted to believe . On most important issues as chief executive , Washington still prevailed as he had earlier in the War of Independence and 9 INTRODUCTION : WASHINGTON AND THE ...
... reputation at this stage , see William Guthrie Sayen , " George Washington's ' Unmannerly ' Behavior : The Clash between Civil- ity and Honor , " VMHB 107 ( 1999 ) : 5-36 . 10. The new Mount Vernon bookshelf also lists two splendid ...
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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 |