Washington: a life
In "Washington : a Life" celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation, dashing forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and revealing an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people
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Zusammenfassung: | In "Washington : a Life" celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation, dashing forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and revealing an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people |
Beschreibung: | The portrait artist -- The frontiersman -- The planter -- The general -- The statesman -- The president -- The legend |
Beschreibung: | XXI, 904 S. Ill. 25 cm |
ISBN: | 9781594202667 1594202664 9780143119968 |
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adam_text | Contents
author’s NOTE XVII
prelude: The Portrait Artist xix
part one: The J^rontiersman
one: A Short-Lived Family 3
two: Fortune’s Favorite 15
three: Wilderness Mission 29
four: Bloodbath 39
five: Shades of Death 52
six: The Soul of an Army 63
seven: A Votary to Love 76
eight: Darling of a Grateful Country 87
part two: The Planter
nine: The Man of Mode 97
ten: A Certain Species of Property 109
eleven: The Prodigy 121
twelve: Providence 127
thirteen: A World of His Own 136
fourteen: The Asiatic Prince 152
fifteen: A Shock of Electricity 163
sixteen: The Glorious Cause 181
seventeen: Magnificent Bluff 194
eighteen: Land of Freedom 206
nineteen: The Heights 222
twenty: All London Afloat 234
twenty-one: Disaster 244
twenty-two: An Indecisive Mind 237
twenty-three: The Crossing 269
twenty-four: The Busy Scenes of a Camp 285
twenty-five: Darkness Visible 300
twenty-six: Rapping a Demigod over the Knuckles 312
twenty-seven: A Dreary Kind of Place 323
twenty-eight: The Long Retreat 337
twenty-nine: Pests of Society 347
thirty: The Storm Thickens 338
thirty-one: The Traitor 371
thirty-two: Mutiny 388
thirty-three: Plundering Scoundrels 398
thirty-four: The World Turned Upside Down 406
thirty-five: Man of Moderation 424
thirty-six: Closing the Drama with Applause 437
thirty-seven: Cincinnatus 448
part four: TheStatesman
thirty-eight: American Celebrity 461
thirty-nine: Gentleman Farmer 476
forty: Devil’s Bargain 483
forty-one: The Ruins of the Past 497
forty-two: A Masterly Hand 308
forty-three: A House on Fire 320
forty-four: Rising Sun 333
forty-five: Mounting the Seat 342
forty-six: The Place of Execution 559
forty-seven: Acting the Presidency 574
forty-eight: The Cares of Office 586
forty-nine: Rays of Genius 595
fifty: The Traveling Presidency 608
fifty-one: The State of the President 618
fifty-two: Capital Matters 629
fifty-three: Southern Exposure 642
fifty-four: Running into Extremes 656
fifty-five: A Tissue of Machinations 669
fifty-six: Citizen Genet 684
fifty-seven: Bring Out Your Dead 700
fifty-eight: Hercules in the Field 711
fifty-nine; Crowns and Coronets 723
sixty: Mad Dog 729
sixty-one: The Colossus of the People 740
sixty-two: The Master of Farewells 752
sixty-three: Exiting the Stage 764
part six: T’he£egend
sixty-four: Samson and Solomon 775
sixty-five: A Mind on the Stretch 792
sixty-six: Freedom 799
sixty-seven: Homecoming 805
Acknowledgments 819
Notes 823
Bibliography 859
Books 859
Articles 864
Index 873
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