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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Don Higginbotham, author of George Washington and the American Military Tradition among numerous other books, is Dowd Professor of History and Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
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ALTHOUGH THE WASHINGTON literature is voluminous beyond description, there has been only one previous endeavor to present the latest scholarship on the great man in the form of a volume of essays, articles, and book chapters: James Morton Smith's George Washington: A Profile, which appeared in the late 1960s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Mount Vernon, George Washington, New York, Robert Cary, Farewell Address, American Revolution, John Adams, Virginia Regiment, Thomas Jefferson, Tobias Lear, Chapel Hill, Great Britain, Jay Treaty, Patrick Henry, Richard Washington, Martha Washington, Henry Lee, House of Burgesses, Alexander Hamilton, David Humphreys, Lawrence Washington, Lund Washington, Revolutionary War, William Fairfax, Old Dominion New!
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ALTHOUGH THE WASHINGTON literature is voluminous beyond description, there has been only one previous endeavor to present the latest scholarship on the great man in the form of a volume of essays, articles, and book chapters: James Morton Smith's George Washington: A Profile, which appeared in the late 1960s. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
dower slaves, consignment trade, direct traders, uncommon awareness, consignment merchants, great planters, tobacco trade, invoices for goods, annual shipments, classical hero Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Mount Vernon, George Washington, New York, Robert Cary, Farewell Address, American Revolution, John Adams, Virginia Regiment, Thomas Jefferson, Tobias Lear, Chapel Hill, Great Britain, Jay Treaty, Patrick Henry, Richard Washington, Martha Washington, Henry Lee, House of Burgesses, Alexander Hamilton, David Humphreys, Lawrence Washington, Lund Washington, Revolutionary War, William Fairfax, Old Dominion New!
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- The Invention of George Washington by Paul K. Longmore on 5 pages
- George Washington: The Making of an American Symbol (Cornell paperbacks) by Barry Schwartz on 4 pages
- The Age of Federalism: The Early American Republic, 1788-1800 by Stanley Elkins on 4 pages
- George Washington and the American Military Tradition (Mercer University Lamar Memorial Lectures) by Don Higginbotham on page 164, page 197, and Back Matter
- The Genius of George Washington (The Third George Rogers Clark lecture) by Edmund S. Morgan in Front Matter, page 288, and Back Matter
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- The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West by Joel Achenbach on 7 pages
- An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America by Henry Wiencek in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Martha Washington: An American Life by Patricia Brady in Back Matter
- George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America by Robert F. Dalzell Jr. in Back Matter
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