George Washington: A Biography
by Douglas Southall Freeman
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A concise edition of Douglas Southall Freeman's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of George Washington. Brash and overly ambitious in his youth, George Washington is shown to have been reserved and selfless as general and President.Tags
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- George Washington; John Adams; Fisher Ames; Alexander Hamilton; John Jay; Thomas Jefferson (show all 17); Rufus King; Henry Knox; James McHenry; James Madison; James Monroe; Timothy Pickering; Charles Cotesworth Pinckney; Thomas Pinckney; Edmund Randolph; Martha Custis Washington; Oliver Wolcott
- Important places
- Virginia, USA; Mount Vernon, Virginia, USA; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA; Boston, Massachusetts, USA; New York, New York, USA
- Important events
- French and Indian War; American Revolution (1775 | 1783); Constitutional Convention; Washington Presidency
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- Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, History
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- 973.4 — History & geography History of North America United States Constitutional period (1789-1809)
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- E312 .F82 — History of the United States United States Revolution to the Civil War, 1775/1783-1861 By period 1789-1809. Constitutional period Washington's administrations, 1789-1797
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