George Washington"George Washington" is an intriguing biography of America's first president as told by the man who would later become its twenty-eighth, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson takes us on a journey from a look at Washington's times to his Virginia breeding to his life in colonial America. Wilson looks at how these factors shaped the man who would lead the nation in its fight for independence and into its first years as a new nation. This is an insightful look into our nation's early history by a man who would play a key part in it more than one hundred years later. |
Contents
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COLONEL WASHINGTON | 69 |
MOUNT VERNON DAYS | 99 |
THE HEAT OF POLITICS | 117 |
PILOTING A REVOLUTION | 153 |
GENERAL WASHINGTON | 179 |
THE STRESS OF VICTORY | 213 |
FIRST IN PEACE | 233 |
THE FIRST PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES | 265 |
INDEX | 315 |
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