To most Americans he is regarded as 'The Father Of Our Nation', but how many really know the man behind the face on the one dollar bill? * The Cast: The first US President, George Washington. * The ...
The Landsdowne portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired as a gift to the nation through the generosity of the Donald W. Reynolds ...
In 1789, Washington urged the people of the United States to celebrate “a day of public thanksgiving and prayer.” ...
Few Americans are as surrounded by legend as George Washington is. The first President of the United States is renowned as a military genius who led his troops to victory during the Revolutionary War, ...
It is fair to say that, for more than two centuries, Americans have grown up thinking of George Washington as something like a marble bust lashed to a white horse: remote, commanding, dignified, ...
When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Tatiana Schlossberg YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST A Biography of George Washington By Alexis Coe ...
No one would describe Alexis Coe’s unconventional biography of conventional biographical subject George Washington as boring. Starting with its cover illustration, a playful Washington grinning at the ...
The unrelenting boom in historical biography known as “Founders chic” has smiled not only on such popular nonfiction writers as David McCulloch and Ron Chernow, but also on academic historians like ...
Robert E. Lee was the son of a Revolutionary War hero who was a trusted aide to George Washington. In 1861, after 25 years in the U.S. Army, Lee turned down an offer to command Union forces in the ...
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