His Excellency


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National Bestseller To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose “statue-like solidity” concealed volcanic energies and emotions. Here 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.




The Life of George Washington / La vida de George Washington


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George Washington wasn’t just the first US president. He was also the general who led the Continental army to victory over the British. English language learners will discover facts about Washington’s life in easy-to-follow language, including his role in the founding of the United States and his presidency. Historic images and age-appropriate content, translated into standard Latin American Spanish, will engage beginning readers who are learning about Washington’s impact on the nation for the first time.







George Washington's Breakfast


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Having the same name and birthday as George Washington, a young boy wants everything else in his life just as Washington had it, but he can not find out what Washington ate for breakfast.




George Washington


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Learn basic facts about George Washington, America's first president.




La vida de George Washington (The Life of George Washington)


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George Washington wasn't just the first American president. He was also the general who led the Continental army to victory over the British. English language learners will discover facts about Washington's life in easy-to-follow language, including his role in the founding of the United States and his presidency. Historic images and age-appropriate content, translated into standard Latin American Spanish, will engage beginning readers who are learning about Washington's impact on the nation for the first time.




The Tree of Life


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The human race has been asleep, and has dreamed that property and money are the true wealth of a nation, sacrificing men, women and children to the chimerical idea that danced in visionary splendor through their brains. The result of this is to be seen in the uneasiness that prevails everywhere. But humanity is waking up, slowly but surely and beginning to realize that it, itself, is the most precious thing on earth. In this book the author thoroughly explains the process of physical regenesis by applying the principles of bodilychemistry and spiritual operation.




The Whiskey Rebellion


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This book assesses the rebellion in relation to interregional tensions, international diplomacy, frontier expansion, republican ideology and the social and political conflict of the l780s -1790s.




George Washington


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George Washington (1732-1799) was the first U.S. president and a leader during the Revolutionary War. Time Inc. presents a biographical sketch of Washington and offers links to related sites as part of the "LIFE" magazine Hero of the Week Profile.




George Vs. George


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Explores how the characters and lives of King George III of England and George Washington affected the progress and outcome of the American Revolution.