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George Washington : the image and the man
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- by W.E. Woodward
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- New York : Boni and Liveright, 1926
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (460, xiii-xxxv pages) : portraits, plan, facsimile
- Includes bibliographical references (pages xiii-xxvi) and index.
- The genteel Washingtons -- The sense of numbers -- Love and the Fairfaxes -- The world grows more complicated -- Raw pride of youth -- The confident General Braddock -- The objective life -- Pearls and petticoats -- The colonial people -- Puritan and other morals -- Loggerheads and pewter dollars -- Storm centres -- The wrath of merchants -- The iron-fisted patriots -- George Washington and Samuel Adams -- Tar and feathers -- The people's revolution -- Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson -- Was Washington a good general? -- Washington luck -- Washington and the plotters -- The riddle of Charles Lee -- Act two -- Washington as Grand Seigneur -- The Federal convention -- Washington as president -- Dust and ashes