You never forget your first : a biography of George Washington / Alexis Coe.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780735224117
- ISBN: 0735224110
- ISBN: 9780735224100
- ISBN: 0735224102
- Physical Description: xlii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Publisher: [New York, NY] : Penguin Books, 2021.
- Copyright: ©2020
Content descriptions
- Bibliography, etc. Note:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-250) and index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- You never forget your first: but you do misremember him -- Introduction: The thigh men of Dad history -- part 1. Reluctant rebel. His mother's son -- "Pleases my taste" -- "The world on fire" -- "Blow out my brains" -- The Widow Custis -- "I cannot speak plainer" -- "What manner of man I am" -- "The shackles of slavery" -- part 2. General George Washington's American Revolution: off the battlefied. Hardball with the Howe brothers -- The court of public opinion -- George Washington, Agent 711 -- Eight years away -- "From whence no traveller returns" -- part 3. Mr. President. Unretirement -- The Presidency; or, "The place of his execution" -- Infant nation -- "Political suicide" -- Farewell to "cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men" -- part 5. "I die hard." Final Retirement -- " 'Tis well" -- Epilogue.
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- Subject:
- Washington, George, 1732-1799.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
United States > Politics and government > 1783-1789. - Genre:
- Biographies.
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- 26 of 27 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library. (Show)
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Marion Library | BIO WAS (Text) | 37810435783385 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Anson County Bookmobile | B WASHINGTON (Text) | 18198000676157 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Braswell Memorial Main Library | 973.4 COE (Text) | 37807000016019 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Cliffdale Library | B WASHINGTON (Text) | 31781065493536 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Dorothy Wightman Library | B WASHINGTON GEORGE COE (Text) | 30372101802889 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Etowah Branch | 973.41 C (Text) | 33258009854253 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Forsyth Central | B Washington, George (Text) | 0112522816636 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| George H. & Laura E. Brown Library | 973.41 Coe (Text) | 30308101241470 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
| Haywood County Main Library | B Washington (Text) | 33115007679404 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | 973.41 C (Text) | 33258009854246 | Adult Nonfiction | Available | - |
