Book Description
Includes Washington In Colonial Politics, 1755-1775; Washington's Relations To Congress, 1775-1786.
Author : David Maydole Matteson
Publisher :
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 25,51 MB
Release : 2013-03
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ISBN : 9781258600730
Includes Washington In Colonial Politics, 1755-1775; Washington's Relations To Congress, 1775-1786.
Author : David Maydole Matteson
Publisher :
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 1931
Category :
ISBN :
Author : James Albert Harrison
Publisher :
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 25,98 MB
Release : 1906
Category : Presidents
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Author : Robert K. Wright
Publisher :
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Government publications
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Author : Robert Burney Johnston
Publisher :
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 45,79 MB
Release : 1930
Category : Virginia
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Author : John Torrey Morse
Publisher :
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 21,46 MB
Release : 1898
Category : Statesmen, American
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Author : Paul K. Longmore
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 21,27 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780813918723
This is a paper edition reprint of study originally published in 1988 by the U. of California Press. The title refers to the historical process by which Washington was made into a heroic myth by the American people, and also to discussion of Washington's own active role in the process--evidence of his strong talent, often overlooked, as a political actor. The author is a historian affiliated with San Francisco State University. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Tittle Lyssa
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 30,4 MB
Release : 2020-11-04
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ISBN :
This book will reveal all the facts about the first American president - George Washington. He was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. He presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which established the U.S. Constitution and a federal government. Washington received his initial military training and command with the Virginia Regiment. He is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. Here is the free-spending landowner whose debts to English merchants instilled him with a prickly resentment of imperial power. We see the general who lost more battles than he won and the reluctant president who tried to float above the partisan feuding of his cabinet. His Excellency is a magnificent work, indispensable to an understanding not only of its subject but also of the nation he brought into being. Washington became an international symbol for liberation and nationalism, as the leader of the first successful revolution against a colonial empire.
Author : Tittle Lyssa
Publisher :
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 25,94 MB
Release : 2020-11-04
Category :
ISBN :
This book will reveal all the facts about the first American president - George Washington. He was an American political leader, military general, statesman, and Founding Father who served as the first president of the United States from 1789 to 1797. He presided at the Constitutional Convention of 1787, which established the U.S. Constitution and a federal government. Washington received his initial military training and command with the Virginia Regiment. He is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. Here is the free-spending landowner whose debts to English merchants instilled him with a prickly resentment of imperial power. We see the general who lost more battles than he won and the reluctant president who tried to float above the partisan feuding of his cabinet. His Excellency is a magnificent work, indispensable to an understanding not only of its subject but also of the nation he brought into being. Washington became an international symbol for liberation and nationalism, as the leader of the first successful revolution against a colonial empire.
Author : Kevin Peraino
Publisher : Crown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 42,49 MB
Release : 2014-10-28
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0307887219
A captivating look at how Abraham Lincoln evolved into one of our seminal foreign-policy presidents—and helped point the way to America’s rise to world power. Abraham Lincoln is not often remembered as a great foreign-policy president. He had never traveled overseas and spoke no foreign languages. And yet, during the Civil War, Lincoln and his team skillfully managed to stare down the Continent’s great powers—deftly avoiding European intervention on the side of the Confederacy. In the process, the United States emerged as a world power in its own right. Engaging, insightful, and highly original, Lincoln in the World is a tale set at the intersection of personal character and national power. Focusing on five distinct, intensely human conflicts that helped define Lincoln’s approach to foreign affairs—from his debate, as a young congressman, with his law partner over the conduct of the Mexican War, to his deadlock with Napoleon III over the French occupation of Mexico—and bursting with colorful characters like Lincoln’s bowie-knife-wielding minister to Russia, Cassius Marcellus Clay; the cunning French empress, Eugénie; and the hapless Mexican monarch Maximilian, Lincoln in the World draws a finely wrought portrait of a president and his team at the dawn of American power. Anchored by meticulous research into overlooked archives, Lincoln in the World reveals the sixteenth president to be one of America’s indispensable diplomats—and a key architect of America’s emergence as a global superpower. Much has been written about how Lincoln saved the Union, but Lincoln in the World highlights the lesser-known—yet equally vital—role he played on the world stage during those tumultuous years of war and division.