Description: Pages clean and unmarked. The lightest shelf wear from handling and light misprint of the gloss of the cover. Images on listing, are of this PAPERBACK______________ 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
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Book Title: His Excellency: George Washington Paperback by Joseph J. Ellis 20
Custom Bundle: No
Book Series: His Excellency: George Washington Paperback by Joseph J. Ellis 20
Original Language: English
Item Length: 8in.
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Item Height: 0.7in.
Personalized: No
Features: N/A
Topic: United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Presidents & Heads of State
Item Width: 5.2in.
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: Collector's Edition, Limited Edition
Publication Year: 2005
Type: POLITICS, HISTORY, PRESIDENTS
Literary Movement: Enlightenment, Modernism
Era: 2020s
Author: Joseph J. Ellis
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 11.6 Oz
Number of Pages: 330 Pages
