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From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington.

In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian War, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president.

Despite the reverence his name inspires, Washington remains a lifeless waxwork for many Americans, worthy but dull. A laconic man of granite self-control, he often arouses more respect than affection. In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow dashes forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man. A strapping six feet, Washington was a celebrated horseman, elegant dancer, and tireless hunter, with a fiercely guarded emotional life. Chernow brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods. Probing his private life, he explores his fraught relationship with his crusty mother, his youthful infatuation with the married Sally Fairfax, and his often conflicted feelings toward his adopted children and grandchildren. He also provides a lavishly detailed portrait of his marriage to Martha and his complex behavior as a slave master.

At the same time, Washington is an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people. Not only did Washington gather around himself the foremost figures of the age, including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, but he also brilliantly orchestrated their actions to shape the new federal government, define the separation of powers, and establish the office of the presidency.

In this unique biography, Ron Chernow takes us on a page-turning journey through all the formative events of America's founding. With a dramatic sweep worthy of its giant subject, Washington is a magisterial work from one of our most elegant storytellers.Amazon.com Review

Ron Chernow Shares Surprising Facts About George Washington

--Washington was the only major founder who lacked a college education. John Adams went to Harvard, James Madison to Princeton, and Alexander Hamilton to Columbia, making Washington self-conscious about what he called his “defective education.”

--Washington never had wooden teeth. He wore dentures that were made of either walrus or elephant ivory and were fitted with real human teeth. Over time, as the ivory got cracked and stained, it resembled the grain of wood. Washington may have purchased some of his teeth from his own slaves.

--Washington had a strangely cool and distant relationship with his mother. During the Revolutionary War and her son’s presidency, she never uttered a word of praise about him and she may even have been a Tory. No evidence exists that she ever visited George and Martha Washington at Mount Vernon. Late in the Revolutionary War, Mary Washington petitioned the Virginia legislature for financial relief, pleading poverty—and, by implication, neglect by her son. Washington, who had been extremely generous to his mother, was justly indignant.

--Even as a young man, Washington seemed to possess a magical immunity to bullets. In one early encounter in the French and Indian War, he absorbed four bullets in his coat and hat and had two horses shot from under him yet emerged unscathed. This led one Indian chief to predict that some higher power was guiding him to great events in the future.

--By age 30 Washington had survived smallpox, malaria, dysentery, and other diseases. Although he came from a family of short-lived men, he had an iron constitution and weathered many illnesses that would have killed a less robust man. He lived to the age of 67.

--While the Washingtons were childless—it has always been thought that George Washington was sterile—they presided over a household teeming with children. Martha had two children from her previous marriage and she and George later brought up two grandchildren as well, not to mention countless nieces and nephews.

--That Washington was childless proved a great boon to his career.Because he had no heirs, Americans didn’t worry that he might be tempted to establish a hereditary monarchy.And many religious Americans believed that God had deliberately deprived Washington of children so that he might serve as Father of His Country.

--Though he tried hard to be fair and took excellent medical care of his slaves, Washington could be a severe master. His diaries reveal that during one of the worst cold snaps on record in Virginia—when Washington himself found it too cold to ride outside—he had his field slaves out draining swamps and performing other arduous tasks.

--For all her anxiety about being constantly in a battle zone, Martha Washington spent a full half of the Revolutionary War with her husband—a major act of courage that has largely gone unnoticed.

--Washington was obsessed with his personal appearance, which extended to his personal guard during the war. Despite wartime austerity and a constant shortage of soldiers, he demanded that all members of his personal guard be between 5'8" and 5'10"; a year later, he narrowed the range to 5'9" to 5'10."

--While Washington lost more battles than he won, he still ranks as a great general. His greatness lay less in his battlefield brilliance—he committed some major strategic blunders—than in his ability to hold his ragged army intact for more than eight years, keeping the flame of revolution alive.

--Washington ran his own spy network during the war and was often the only one privy to the full scope of secret operations against the British. He anticipated many techniques of modern espionage, including the use of misinformation and double agents.

--Washington tended his place in history with extreme care. Even amid wartime stringency, he got Congress to appropriate special funds for a full-time team of secretaries who spent two years copying his wartime papers into beautiful ledgers.

--For thirty years, Washington maintained an extraordinary relationship with his slave and personal manservant William Lee, who accompanied him throughout the Revolutionary War and later worked in the presidential mansion. Lee was freed upon Washington’s death and given a special lifetime annuity.

--The battle of Yorktown proved the climactic battle of the revolution and the capstone of Washington’s military career, but he initially opposed this Franco-American operation against the British—a fact he later found hard to admit.

--Self-conscious about his dental problems, Washington maintained an air of extreme secrecy when corresponding with his dentist and never used such incriminating words as ‘teeth’ or ‘dentures.’ By the time he became president, Washington had only a single tooth left—a lonely lower left bicuspid that held his dentures in place.

--Washington always displayed extremely ambivalence about his fame. Very often, when he was traveling, he would rise early to sneak out of a town or enter it before he could be escorted by local dignitaries. He felt beleaguered by the social demands of his own renown.

--At Mount Vernon, Washington functioned as his own architect—and an extremely original one at that. All of the major features that we associate with the house—the wide piazza and colonnade overlooking the Potomac, the steeple and the weathervane with the dove of peace—were personally designed by Washington himself.

--A master showman with a brilliant sense of political stagecraft, Washington would disembark from his coach when he was about to enter a town then mount a white parade horse for maximum effect. It is not coincidental that there are so many fine equestrian statues of him.

--Land-rich and cash-poor, Washington had to borrow money to attend his own inauguration in New York City in 1789. He then had to borrow money again when he moved back to Virginia after two terms as president. His public life took a terrible toll on his finances.

--Martha Washington was never happy as First Lady—a term not yet in use—and wrote with regret after just six months of the experience: “I think I am more like a state prisoner than anything else...And as I cannot do as I like, I am obstinate and stay home a great deal.”

--When the temporary capital moved to Philadelphia in 1790, Washington brought six or seven slaves to the new presidential mansion. Under a Pennsylvania abolitionist law, slaves who stayed continuously in the state for six months were automatically free. To prevent this, Washington, secretly coached by his Attorney General, rotated his slaves in and out of the state without telling them the real reason for his actions.

--Washington nearly died twice during his first term in office, the first time from a tumor on his thigh that may have been from anthrax or an infection, the second time from pneumonia. Many associates blamed his sedentary life as president for the sudden decline in his formerly robust health and he began to exercise daily.

--Tired of the demands of public life, Washington never expected to serve even one term as president, much less two. He originally planned to serve for only a year or two, establish the legitimacy of the new government, then resign as president. Because of one crisis after another, however, he felt a hostage to the office and ended up serving two full terms. For all his success as president, Washington frequently felt trapped in the office.

--Exempt from attacks at the start of his presidency, Washington was viciously attacked in the press by his second term. His opponents accused him of everything from being an inept general to wanting to establish a monarchy. At one point, he said that not a single day had gone by that he hadn’t regretted staying on as president.

--Washington has the distinction of being the only president ever to lead an army in battle as commander-in-chief. During the Whiskey Rebellion of 1794, he personally journeyed to western Pennsylvania to take command of a large army raised to put down the protest against the excise tax on distilled spirits.

--Two of the favorite slaves of George and Martha Washington—Martha’s personal servant, Ona Judge and their chef Hercules—escaped to freedom at the end of Washington’s presidency. Washington employed the resources of the federal government to try to entrap Ona Judge in Portsmouth, New Hampshire and return her forcibly to Virginia. His efforts failed.

--Washington stands out as the only founder who freed his slaves, at least the 124 who were under his personal control. (He couldn’t free the so-called ‘dower slaves’ who came with his marriage to Martha.) In his will, he stipulated that the action was to take effect only after Martha died so that she could still enjoy the income from those slaves.

--After her husband died, Martha grew terrified at the prospect that the 124 slaves scheduled to be freed after her death might try to speed up the timetable by killing her. Unnerved by the situation, she decided to free those slaves ahead of schedule only a year after her husband died.

--Like her husband, Martha Washington ended up with a deep dislike of Thomas Jefferson, whom she called “one of the most detestable of mankind.” When Jefferson visited her at Mount Vernon before he became president, Martha said that it was the second worst day of her life—the first being the day her husband died.

Chernow's Washington
Ron Chernow, the author of a rare and needed biography on Alexander Hamilton, has penned one on the ultimate Founding Father, George Washington.Washington buffs steeped in Flexner's Indispensable Man will find little new here although Chernow devotes a great deal more time to the inner workings of Washington's mind, e.g. his constant striving for self-improvement and consistency, his feelings towards slavery and African-Americans.Also, the book tends to lose steam factually toward the end, e.g. his explanation of Washington's involvement in Potomac canals, the number of United States in the last years of Washington's administration etc.Still, the book is an entertaining read and a good introduction for those new to the subject.

The history of Washington that most historians skipped.
In true Ron Chernow form and style this excellent book captures the history that most historians have missed or omitted. Washington, despite our public school and college educations in regards to this central figure in the formation of our country, was as human as any of us but held himself to a higher standard.

Mr. Chernow captures the raw emotion of General Washington in each period of his life. His actions are drawn into question and the facts are well researched and conclusions are either substantiated or open for the reader to develop his own opinion of Washington.

An essential read for anyone desiring to understand how a figure portrayed as saying little and being in the right place at the right time is proven to be a driving force behind the Revolution, the Constitution and the establishment of the Presidency. You will also grasp a crisp understanding of what the Founding Father intended and casual reflection will leave the reader keenly aware of how far we have strayed from the path they pledged their fortunes and their lives to pass on to posterity.

Ron is a master storyteller
This is even better than "Alexander Hamilton" which I loved. It was a long wait for Ron Chernow's latest biography but thank you Ron for taking the time to get it right. I have devoured it as well as bought the audio book read by Scott Brick who was the voice of Hamilton as well. Reading then listening then reading and listening simultaneously has deepened the experience of the master word-smith that Ron is. Of course this triumphant return was aided by the immense body of work laid before him via countless biographies through time and the all the Washington papers but no one in my opinion has formulated such a clear and concise portrait of George Washington's life than Ron Chernow. My only regret is that it was not 1,400 pages.

Duke.

Geography, Mr. Chernow, geography please!
I'm a little embarrassed for Mr. Chernow. First of all, Bermuda isn't in the Caribbean. Second, there were more than a series of stone walls between Throgg's Neck and Harlem Heights (as in the Battle of) since Throgg's Neck was, and still is, in the Bronx (where I was raised)and Harlem Heights was, and is, in Manhattan. I shudder to think of what he has done to the Battle(s) of Saratoga where, I maintain, the Revolutionary War was essentially won by Benedict Arnold, of all people.
Still, I like the book so far(I'm only quarter-way through); it's an easy read and an interesting view of Washington, the man.

The Dan Brown of Biographers
I read Hamilton and thought it was one of the finest biographies I'd ever read on a "Founding Father." It was thoroughly researched and brilliantly laid out the struggle with Jefferson in establishing the early principles that are still debated today. In doing so, the magical quality of this great country can be viewed at its inception. Seeing the "lively" debate that transpired imbues confidence that we are still okay despite the noisy politics. So I eagerly awaited this book. I pre-ordered and then devoured the book like Chinese food (which I love). Two hours later I wanted Mr. Chernow's next work. In the meantime I ordered The House of Morgan and plan to read it slowly. Washington carries Mr. Chernow's biographical skill to the max and I wonder how his next work can top this. Here is Washington laid bare without the myths (as if he ever needed them) and a remarkable man is portrayed despite flaws and errors of judgment. I've read other fine books on Washington but the readablity of this book is stunning. Greatness is sometimes perceived in life and sometimes after. With Washington, we have a man who had and has both, not always an easy accomplishment, especially when criticism and scorn seem to be prevalent human reflexes. This would make a fantastic holiday gift to any avid reader interested in early American history and/or a consumer of excellent biographies. ... Read more

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81. The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 (of 5) by JOHN MARSHALL
	Kindle Edition: Pages (2009-05-03) list price: US$4.99 Asin: B002BDUJNW Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description CONTENTS CHAPTER I. Incursion into Jersey.... General Lacy surprised.... Attempt on Lafayette at Barren hill.... General Howe resigns the command of the British army.... Is succeeded by Sir H. Clinton.... He evacuates Philadelphia, and marches through the Jerseys.... A council of war which decides against attacking the British on their march.... Battle of Monmouth.... General Lee arrested.... Sentenced to be suspended for one year.... Thanks of Congress to General Washington and his army. CHAPTER II. Count D'Estaing arrives with a French fleet.... Meditates an attack on the British fleet in New York harbour.... Relinquishes it.... Sails to Rhode Island.... Lord Howe appears off Rhode Island.... Both fleets dispersed by a storm.... General Sullivan lays siege to Newport.... D'Estaing returns.... Sails for Boston.... Sullivan expresses his dissatisfaction in general orders.... Raises the siege of Newport.... Action on Rhode Island.... The Americans retreat to the Continent.... Count D'Estaing expresses his dissatisfaction with Sullivan in a letter to congress.... General Washington labours successfully to heal these discontents.... Lord Howe resigns the command of the British fleet.... Colonel Baylor's regiment surprised.... Captain Donop defeated by Colonel Butler.... Expedition of the British against Egg Harbour.... Pulaski surprised. ... Read more

82. The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon by John Ferling
	Kindle Edition: 464 Pages (2009-07-01) list price: US$30.00 Asin: B004AE2TY2 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan

83. The True George Washington by Paul Leicester Ford
	Kindle Edition: Pages (2010-09-17) list price: US$4.00 Asin: B0043EWYDK Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description In every country boasting a history there may be observed a tendency to make its leaders or great men superhuman. Whether we turn to the legends of the East, the folk-lore of Europe, or the traditions of the native races of America, we find a mythology based upon the acts of man gifted with superhuman powers. In the unscientific, primeval periods in which these beliefs were born and elaborated into oral and written form, their origin is not surprising. But to all who have studied the creation of a mythology, no phase is a more curious one than that the keen, practical American of to-day should engage in the same process of hero-building which has given us Jupiter, Wotan, King Arthur, and others. By a slow evolution we have well-nigh discarded from the lives of our greatest men of the past all human faults and feelings; have enclosed their greatness in glass of the clearest crystal, and hung up a sign, "Do not touch." Indeed, with such characters as Washington, Franklin, and Lincoln we have practically adopted the English maxim that "the king can do no wrong." In place of men, limited by human limits, and influenced by human passions, we have demi-gods, so stripped of human characteristics as to make us question even whether they deserve much credit for their sacrifices and deeds. ... Read more

84. My Fellow Americans: Presidential Inaugural Addresses from George Washington to Barack Obama by Barack Obama, Ronald Reagan, John F Kennedy, Franklin D Roosevelt, Abraham Lincoln
	Kindle Edition: Pages (2009-05-09) list price: US$9.99 Asin: B00295SDB2 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description The complete Inaugural Addresses of the US Presidents."With malice toward none, with charity for all.""The only thing we have to fear is -- fear itself.""Ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country". ... Read more

85. George Washington: Foundation of Presidential Leadership and Character
	Kindle Edition: 248 Pages (2001-09-30) list price: US$107.00 Asin: B001EHDNRK Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description There have been many serious abuses of presidential power in recent decades, including Watergate, the Iran-Contra scandal, and the Lewinsky affair, subsequently Americans have demonstrated renewed interest in discussing the relationship between character and political leadership. Through an investigation of the life and career of George Washington, often considered the exemplary moral president, the chapters offer a balanced scholarly contribution to this analysis. ... Read more

86. George Washington and the Origins of the American Presidency by William D. Pederson, Mark J. Rozell, Frank J. Williams
	Kindle Edition: 224 Pages (2000-07-30) list price: US$125.00 Asin: B000PY3FB2 Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description This essay collection is a retrospective analysis of the Washington administration and an examination of its importance to understanding the modern presidency. Contemporary presidential scholarship gives little attention to the enormous impact that Washington's actions had on establishing the presidency. Many of Washington's precedents last to this day, and in some respects his presidency established a model of leadership that is quite relevant today. ... Read more

87. Rules of conduct, diary of adventure, letters, and farewell addresses (1916) by George Washington
	Kindle Edition: Pages (2010-07-31) list price: US$5.95 Asin: B003XYFMBC Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
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89. GEORGE WASHINGTON's DINNERS by S.E. King
	Kindle Edition: Pages (2010-01-16) list price: US$1.95 Asin: B0034KZ1VQ Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description GEORGE WASHINGTON'S DINNERS is a highly entertaining, historically informative and deliciously engaging CHILDREN'S BOOK about the FOUNDING FATHERS' favorite foods. The author, S.E. King, is a lawyer and journalist with a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Berkeley. Her articles on American history, politics, business, and law have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Business Journal, USA Today, Newsweek and other national publications. ... Read more

90. James D. Richardson-A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 1 (of 4) of Volume 1. George Washington by James D. Richardson
	Kindle Edition: Pages (2009-07-05) list price: US$4.99 Asin: B002G9TB0I Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description An Excerpt from the book- To all to whom these Presents shall come, we the undersigned Delegates of the States affixed to our Names send greeting. Whereas the Delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the fifteenth day of November in the Year of our Lord One Thousand Seven Hundred and Seventy seven, and in the Second Year of the Independence of America agree to certain articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the States of Newhampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhodeisland and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia in the Words following, viz. "Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union between the states of Newhampshire, Massachusetts-bay, Rhodeisland and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New-York, New-Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North-Carolina, South-Carolina and Georgia." Article I. The Stile of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America." Article II. Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom an independence, and every Power, Jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in Congress assembled. ... Read more

95. US Presidential Inaugural Address and Speeches with Active Table of Contents by various
	Kindle Edition: Pages (2010-05-09) list price: US$0.99 Asin: B003LSSRNK Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description This book contains the full text of the following inaugural address of these Presidents of the United States of America: George Washington, First Inaugural Address, Thursday, April 30, 1789 George Washington, Second Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1793 John Adams, Inaugural Address, Saturday, March 4, 1797 Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, Wednesday, March 4, 1801 Thomas Jefferson, Second Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1805 James Madison, First Inaugural Address, Saturday, March 4, 1809 James Madison, Second Inaugural Address, Thursday, March 4, 1813 James Monroe, First Inaugural Address, Tuesday, March 4, 1817 James Monroe, Second Inaugural Address, Monday, March 5, 1821 John Quincy Adams, Inaugural Address, Friday, March 4, 1825 Andrew Jackson, First Inaugural Address, Wednesday, March 4, 1829 Andrew Jackson, Second Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1833 Martin Van Buren, Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1837 William Henry Harrison, Inaugural Address, Thursday, March 4, 1841 James Knox Polk, Inaugural Address, Tuesday, March 4, 1845 Zachary Taylor, Inaugural Address, Monday, March 5, 1849 Franklin Pierce, Inaugural Address, Friday, March 4, 1853 James Buchanan, Inaugural Address, Wednesday, March 4, 1857 Abraham Lincoln, First Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1861 Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address, Saturday, March 4, 1865 Ulysses S. Grant, First Inaugural Address, Thursday, March 4, 1869 Ulysses S. Grant, Second Inaugural Address, Tuesday, March 4, 1873 Rutherford B. Hayes, Inaugural Address, Monday, March 5, 1877 James A. Garfield, Inaugural Address, Friday, March 4, 1881 Grover Cleveland, First Inaugural Address, Wednesday, March 4, 1885 Benjamin Harrison, Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1889 Grover Cleveland, Second Inaugural Address, Saturday, March 4, 1893 William McKinley, First Inaugural Address, Thursday, March 4, 1897 William McKinley, Second Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1901 Theodore Roosevelt, Inaugural Address, Saturday, March 4, 1905 William Howard Taft, Inaugural Address, Thursday, March 4, 1909 Woodrow Wilson, First Inaugural Address, Tuesday, March 4, 1913 Woodrow Wilson, Second Inaugural Address, Monday, March 5, 1917 Warren G. Harding, Inaugural Address, Friday, March 4, 1921 Calvin Coolidge, Inaugural Address, Wednesday, March 4, 1925 Herbert Hoover, Inaugural Address, Monday, March 4, 1929 Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address, Saturday, March 4, 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Second Inaugural Address, Wednesday, January 20, 1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Third Inaugural Address, Monday, January 20, 1941 Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fourth Inaugural Address, Saturday, January 20, 1945 Harry S. Truman, Inaugural Address, Thursday, January 20, 1949 Dwight D. Eisenhower, First Inaugural Address, Tuesday, January 20, 1953 Dwight D. Eisenhower, Second Inaugural Address, Monday, January 21, 1957 John F. Kennedy, Inaugural Address, Friday, January 20, 1961 Lyndon Baines Johnson, Inaugural Address, Wednesday, January 20, 1965 Richard Milhous Nixon, First Inaugural Address, Monday, January 20, 1969 Richard Milhous Nixon, Second Inaugural Address, Saturday, January 20, 1973 Jimmy Carter, Inaugural Address, Thursday, January 20, 1977 Ronald Reagan, First Inaugural Address, Tuesday, January 20, 1981 Ronald Reagan, Second Inaugural Address, Monday, January 21, 1985 George Bush, Inaugural Address, Friday, January 20, 1989 Bill Clinton, First Inaugural Address, Wednesday, January 21, 1993 Bill Clinton, Second Inaugural Address, Monday, January 20, 1997 George W. Bush, First Inaugural Address, Saturday, January 20, 2001 George W. Bush, Second Inaugural Address, Thursday, January 20, 2005 Barack Hussein Obama, Inaugural Address, Tuesday, January 20, 2009 ... Read more

91. Presidents from Washington through Monroe, 1789-1825: Debating the Issues in Pro and Con Primary Documents by Amy H. Sturgis
	Kindle Edition: 240 Pages (2001-10-31) list price: US$75.00 Asin: B000PC11QU Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description This work offers the best of both worlds: broad analysis of the first five presidential administrations and specific excerpts from original documents supporting and opposing the presidents' positions. George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe speak for themselves as they argue for their positions on the key political, social, and economic issues of their time in excerpts from primary sources. Excerpts from opposing positions on each issue give the presidents' critics a voice. An explanatory overview of each issue will help students to understand the argument and the context of the issue and to apply critical thinking skills to their understanding. The section on each president includes entries on 4-5 key issues of his administration, from the president's title at the beginning of Washington's administration to American Indian removal at the close of Monroe's term. ... Read more

93. John Adams The State of the Union Address (Presidents) by John Adams
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Editorial Review Product Description by John Adams State of the Union Address Here it is, the State of the Union Address by John Adams, every president makes one. This one is second. Kids need a quick and easy school report, trying reading this in class. ... Read more

94. The Proclamation Of Neutrality - The President Of The United States by The President Of The United States
	Kindle Edition: Pages (2010-01-19) list price: US$2.99 Asin: B0036TH5PU Canada \| United Kingdom \| Germany \| France \| Japan
Editorial Review Product Description Whereas it appears that a state of war exists between Austria, Prussia, Sardinia, Great Britain, and the United Netherlands, of the one part, and France on the other; and the duty and interest of the United States require, that they should with sincerity and good faith adopt and pursue a conduct friendly and impartial toward the belligerant Powers; I have therefore thought fit by these presents to declare the disposition of the United States to observe the conduct aforesaid towards those Powers respectfully; and to exhort and warn the citizens of the United States carefully to avoid all acts and proceedings whatsoever, which may in any manner tend to contravene such disposition. And I do hereby also make known, that whatsoever of the citizens of the United States shall render himself liable to punishment or forfeiture under the law of nations, by committing, aiding, or abetting hostilities against any of the said Powers, or by carrying to any of them those articles which are deemed contraband by the modern usage of nations, will not receive the protection of the United States, against such punishment or forfeiture; and further, that I have given instructions to those officers, to whom it belongs, to cause prosecutions to be instituted against all persons, who shall, within the cognizance of the courts of the United States, violate the law of nations, with respect to the Powers at war, or any of them. In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States of America to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand. Done at the city of Philadelphia, the twenty-second day of April, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-three, and of the Independence of the United States of America the seventeenth. Download The Proclamation Of Neutrality Now ... Read more

97. A Soldier of Virginia, a Tale of Colonel Washington and Braddock's Defeat by Burton Egbert Stevenson
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Editorial Review Product Description Biography of the early life of Washington, from the time of the French and Indian War. According to Wikipedia: "Washington is seen as a symbol of the United States and republicanism in practice. His devotion to civic virtue made him an exemplary figure among early American politicians. Washington died in 1799, and in his funeral oration, Henry Lee said that of all Americans, he was "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Washington has been consistently ranked by scholars as one of the greatest U.S. Presidents." ... Read more

98. The Winning of the West, Volume 3 The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 by Theodore Roosevelt
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Editorial Review Product Description PREFACE TO THIRD VOLUME. The material used herein is that mentioned in the preface to the first volume, save that I have also drawn freely on the Draper Manuscripts, in the Library of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, at Madison. For the privilege of examining these valuable manuscripts I am indebted to the generous courtesy of the State Librarian, Mr. Reuben Gold Thwaites; I take this opportunity of extending to him my hearty thanks. The period covered in this volume includes the seven years immediately succeeding the close of the Revolutionary War. It was during these seven years that the Constitution was adopted, and actually went into effect; an event if possible even more momentous for the West than the East. The time was one of vital importance to the whole nation; alike to the people of the inland frontier and to those of the seaboard. The course of events during these years determined whether we should become a mighty nation, or a mere snarl of weak and quarrelsome little commonwealths, with a history as bloody and meaningless as that of the Spanish-American states. At the close of the Revolution the West was peopled by a few thousand settlers, knit by but the slenderest ties to the Federal Government. A remarkable inflow of population followed. The warfare with the Indians, and the quarrels with the British and Spaniards over boundary questions, reached no decided issue. But the rifle-bearing freemen who founded their little republics on the western waters gradually solved the question of combining personal liberty with national union. For years there was much wavering. There were violent separatist movements, and attempts to establish complete independence of the eastern States. There were corrupt conspiracies between some of the western leaders and various high Spanish officials, to bring about a disruption of the Confederation. The extraordinary little backwoods state of Franklin began and ended a career unique in our annals. But the current, though eddying and sluggish, set towards Union. By 1790 a firm government had been established west of the mountains, and the trans-Alleghany commonwealths had become parts of the Federal Union. THEODORE ROOSEVELT. SAGAMORE HILL, LONG ISLAND, _October_, 1894. ... Read more

99. Memoirs of the Mother and Wife of Washington by Margaret Cockburn Conkling
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Editorial Review Product Description This book was published in 1851. Excerpts: Mrs. Mary Washington was born towards the con- clusion of the year 1706. Little is known of her an- cestors, except that she inherited an unimpeachable name. We are informed that she was descended from a highly respectable family of English colonists, named Ball, who originally established themselves on the banks of the Potomac. It is to be lamented that no records of the youth, or early womanhood of this illustrious lady have been preserved. ........................................................................................... Gifted with great firmness and constancy of purpose, as well as with a clear judgement, and remarkable men- tal independence, her self-reliance was rapidly strength- ened, and soon rendered habitual by circumstances so peculiarly demanding its exercise, as those in which duty imperatively summoned her to act. Her thorough knowledge of practical life enabled Mrs. Washington to superintend all matters relating to the affairs of her household, and, in a good degree, to supply, by her own indefatigable industry and ingenu- ity, whatever was necessary to the welfare and comfort of her family. Order, regularity and occupation reigned supreme in her little world of home. ............................................................................................. In addition to the dear and interesting companions who were added permanently to the members of her household, Mrs. Washington continued, as she had hitherto done, when at Mount Vernon during the warmer months of the year, to gather around her those other family friends and connections who had long partaken her hospitality. Sorrow had never the effect to render her selfish ; nor did she now forget what was due in this respect to her husband, as well as to her own personal obligations and attachments. But she was, of course, altogether disinclined to participate in the public rejoicings and festivities in which the Re- publican Commander-in-Chief, was compelled by his public station to take part. ... Read more