Washington: The Indispensable Man - Couverture souple

Flexner, James Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0316286168 ISBN 13 : 9780316286169

Editeur : Little, Brown Paperbacks, 1994

Synopsis

After more than two decades, this dramatic and concise single-volume distillation of James Thomas Flexner's definitive four-volume biography George Washington, which received a Pulitzer Prize citation and a National Book Award for the fourth volume, has itself become an American classic. Now in a new trade paperback edition, this masterful work explores the Father of Our Country - sometimes an unpopular hero, a man of great contradictions, but always a towering historical figure, who remains, as Flexner writes in these pages, a fallible human being made of flesh and blood and spirit - not a statue of marble and wood... a great and good man. The author unflinchingly paints a portrait of Washington: slave owner, brave leader, man of passion, reluctant politician, and fierce general. His complex character and career are neither glorified nor vilified here; rather, Flexner sets up a brilliant counterpoint between Washington's public and private lives and gives us a challenging look at the man who has become as much a national symbol as the American flag.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown Paperbacks
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0316286168
• ISBN 13: 9780316286169
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 448
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