The Essential George Washington: Two Hundred Years of Observations On the Man, the Myth, the Patriot [SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Hannaford, Peter (compiler and editor)

Edité par Images from the Past, Inc., Bennington, Vermont, 1999

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As new condition navy blue boards with gold front cover and spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Milestones in George Washington's Life; Bibliography and Credits. Illustrated with black-and-white photographs, black-and-white drawings, and a black-and-white frontispiece of Washington's Life Mask by Houdon. Signed by the author with thin blue pen on a bookplate affixed to the lower section of the half title page. "What do they say about George Washington? Fascinating, revealing, and often surprising opinions on the "Father of his Country" from more than sixty selected observers of the past two centuries. Comrades-in-arms, enemies and admirers, revolutionaries and myth-makers, pacifists and generals, philosophers, artists, journalists, and poets, politicians, then and now, courtiers and diarists, presidents, an emperor, and a king. Some personally knew Washington - the rest wish they had. Part I: "Voices of a Young Nation; Part II: "Between Then and Now"; Part III: Washington Today - and Tomorrow." More than 60 prints and photographs." - from the rear outer jacket. "The Essential George Washington is a vivid portrait in words of the man who - more than any other - brought the United States into the world. What they say about him is often controversial, often unexpected: Why did Thomas Paine turn against him? Why did Martha Dangerfield Bland call him "impudent"? What is the truth about the cherry tree story? What was his single most important quality? Why, for two centuries, has his fame endured - as a glorifed icon or as an all-too-human man? The answers to these questions and many more about the "Father of His Country" are brought to light in this collection. Washington's contemporaries are followed by famous Americas from the decades between then and now, and finally by well-known modern-day Americans. Included are Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, King George III, Parson Weems, Napoleon, Oliver Wendell HOlmes, Sr., Abraham Lincoln, Artemus Ward, Walt Whitman, Woodrow Wilson, Bob Dole, George McGovern, Eugen McCarthy, Letitia Baldrige, Newt Gingrich, Ronald Reagan - and many others. With biographical sketches of the contributors." - from the inner front jacket flap.

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• Titre: The Essential George Washington: Two Hundred Years of Observations On the Man, the Myth, the Patriot [SIGNED FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]
• Éditeur: Images from the Past, Inc., Bennington, Vermont
• Date de parution: 1999
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 1st Printing as stat
• État de l'article: As New
• État de la jaquette: As New
• Signé: Signed by Author(s)
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Signed Books/Autographs