Record details

• ISBN: 9781594202667
• ISBN: 1594202664
• ISBN: 9780143119968
• ISBN: 0143119966
• Physical Description: xxi, 904 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
• Publisher: New York : Penguin Press, [2010]
• Copyright: ©2010

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 859-867) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Prelude: the portrait artist -- Pt. 1: the frontiersman -- A short-lived family -- Fortune's favorite -- Wilderness mission -- Bloodbath -- Shades of death -- The soul of an army -- A votary to love -- Darling of a grateful country -- Pt. 2: the planter-- The man of mode -- A certain species of property -- The prodigy -- Providence -- A world of his own -- The Asiatic prince -- A shock of electricity -- Pt. 3: the general -- The glorious cause -- Magnificent bluff -- Land of freedom -- The heights -- All London afloat -- Disaster -- An indecisive mind -- The crossing -- The busy scenes of a camp -- Darkness visible -- Rapping a demigod over the knuckles -- A dreary kind of place -- The long retreat -- Pests of society -- The storm thickens -- The traitor -- Mutiny -- Plundering scoundrels -- The world turned upside down -- Man of moderation -- Closing the drama with applause -- Cincinnatus -- Pt. 4: the statesman -- American celebrity -- Gentleman farmer -- Devil's bargain -- The ruins of the past -- A masterly hand -- A house on fire -- Rising sun -- Mounting the seat -- Pt. 5: the president -- The place of execution -- Acting the presidency -- The cares of office -- Rays of genius -- The traveling presidency -- The state of the president -- Capital matters -- Southern exposure -- Running into extremes -- A tissue of machinations -- Citizen Genet -- Bring out your dead -- Hercules in the field -- Crowns and coronets -- Mad dog -- The colossus of the people -- The master of farewells -- Exiting the stage -- Pt. 6: the legend -- Samson and Solomon -- A mind on the stretch -- Freedom -- Homecoming.

Awards Note:

Pulitzer Prize Winner Letters & Drama - Biography.

Search for related items by subject

Subject:

Washington, George, 1732-1799.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Generals > United States > Biography.
United States > History > 1783-1815.

Genre:

Biographies.