Book Description
For two centuries George Washington has stood First in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Author : George Washington
Publisher :
Page : 1252 pages
File Size : 14,3 MB
Release : 1997-02-22
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
For two centuries George Washington has stood First in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.
Author : George Washington
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
The Papers of George Washington, a grant-funded project, was established in 1968 at the University of Virginia, under the joint auspices of the University and the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union, to publish a comprehensive edition of Washington's correspondence. Letters written to Washington as well as letters and documents written by him are being published in the complete edition that will consist of approximately ninety volumes. The work is now (2011) more than two-thirds complete. The edition is supported financially by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Historical Publications and Records Commission, the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association, the University of Virginia, and gifts from private foundations and individuals. Today there are copies of over 135,000 Washington documents in the project's document room. This is one of the richest collections of American historical manuscripts extant. There is almost no facet of research on life and enterprise in the late colonial and early national periods that will not be enhanced by material from these documents. The publication of Washington's papers will make this source material available not only to scholars but to all Americans interested in the founding of their nation. - Publisher.
Author : George Washington
Publisher : Calkins Creek
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 49,44 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN :
A collection of letters, diary entries, speeches, and other documents written by George Washington, with brief introductions and archival photographs.
Author : George Washington
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Generals
ISBN : 9780813930237
Originally published: New York: Smithsonian Books/HarperCollins, c2007.
Author : George Washington
Publisher :
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 2012-10-01
Category :
ISBN : 9781258502386
Author : George Washington
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 46,80 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Washington was rarely isolated from the world during his eventful life. His diary for 1751-52 relates a voyage to Barbados when he was nineteen. The next two accounts concern the early phases of the French and Indian War, in which Washington commanded a Virginia regiment. By the 1760s when Washington's diaries resume, he considered himself retired from public life, but George III was on the British throne and in the American colonies the process of unrest was beginning that would ultimately place Washington in command of a revolutionary army. Even as he traveled to Philadelphia in 1787 to chair the Constitutional Convention, however, and later as president, Washington's first love remained his plantation, Mount Vernon. In his diary, he religiously recorded the changing methods of farming he employed there and the pleasures of riding and hunting. Rich in material from this private sphere, The Diaries of George Washington offer historians and anyone interested in Washington a closer view of the first president in this bicentennial year of his death.
Author : George Washington
Publisher :
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 15,51 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Presidents
ISBN :
This volumed compilation of the writings of George Washington brings together important speeches, letters, and other official correspondence from the professional life of the Commander-in-Chief. Special attention is paid to documents relating to his military business and political career, but also with personal correspondence to add a more holistic examination into Washington. The editor provides his own summary of Washington's life in the first volume, before the autobiographical documents begin.
Author : George Washington
Publisher : Liberty Fund
Page : 754 pages
File Size : 43,63 MB
Release : 1988
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN :
Based almost entirely on materials reproduced from: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799 / John C. Fitzpatrick, editor. Includes indexes.
Author : Alexis Coe
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 43,93 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0735224129
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR “In her form-shattering and myth-crushing book….Coe examines myths with mirth, and writes history with humor… [You Never Forget Your First] is an accessible look at a president who always finishes in the first ranks of our leaders.” —Boston Globe Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds he is not quite the man we remember Young George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, caused an international incident, and never backed down--even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle. But after he married Martha, everything changed. Washington became the kind of man who named his dog Sweetlips and hated to leave home. He took up arms against the British only when there was no other way, though he lost more battles than he won. After an unlikely victory in the Revolutionary War cast him as the nation's hero, he was desperate to retire, but the founders pressured him into the presidency--twice. When he retired years later, no one talked him out of it. He left the highest office heartbroken over the partisan nightmare his backstabbing cabinet had created. Back on his plantation, the man who fought for liberty must confront his greatest hypocrisy--what to do with the men, women, and children he owns--before he succumbs to death. With irresistible style and warm humor, You Never Forget Your First combines rigorous research and lively storytelling that will have readers--including those who thought presidential biographies were just for dads--inhaling every page.
Author : George Washington
Publisher :
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 15,17 MB
Release : 1907
Category : United States
ISBN :