George Washington the political rise of America's founding father
"In this remarkable new portrait, award-winning historian David O. Stewart unveils the political education that made Washington a master politician--and America's most essential leader. From Virginia's House of Burgesses, where Washington learned the craft and timing of a practicing politician, to h...
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[New York, New York] :
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC,
[2021]
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Table of Contents:
- Time for a new plan
- Beginnings
- The school of Fairfax
- His brother's keeper
- Turning point
- First command
- Blooded
- Picking up the pieces
- A worse catastrophe
- The naked frontier
- A wilderness of difficulties
- Biting the hand
- New paths
- Back into the woods
- The push to Fort Duquesne
- Washington in love
- The new life
- To Mount Vernon
- Man of business, master of slaves
- The backbencher advances
- The wheel of history: the Stamp Act and the Robinson scandal
- Pivot to Fairfax County
- The master of Mount Vernon
- Never enough land
- Washington's association
- Upheavals at Mount Vernon
- Seizing the moment: the Fairfax resolves
- A continental character
- The storm breaks
- General Washington
- "One of the most important characters in the world"
- The bloody path to Valley Forge
- The first adversary: the Conway cabal
- The second adversary: "this fatal crisis"
- The third adversary: the British
- Victory, he said
- The long, bumpy victory lap
- Home, not retired
- Back into harness
- America's rebirth
- A working politician
- On untrodden ground
- The debt and the residence
- The compromise
- The bank
- Second-term blues
- The calamitous Frenchman
- Troubles within
- The fight for peace
- Farewell, again
- Home for good
- Wrestling with sin
- Farewell forever.
