And for the most part, this book definitely fulfilled that. I figured it would give me a good decent background before I really got started into the meat of George Washington’s life. I chose this book to start with because it appeared to be a short, all-encompassing biography. Review: With this book I embark on my presidential reading challenge! And here is the general who lost more battles than he won, and the reluctant president to tried to float above the partisan feuding to an understanding not only of its subject but also of the nation he brought into being. Here is the free-spending landowner whose debts to English merchants instilled him with a prickly resentment of imperial power. Here is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose “statue-like solidity” concealed volcanic energies and emotions. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric rose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Blurb: To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J.
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