Citizen Washington - Hardcover

Martin, William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0446521728 ISBN 13: 9780446521727

Publisher: Grand Central Pub, 1999

Synopsis

A fictional account of George Washington portrays a man full of imperfections and limitations who overcame personal struggles to become one of history's greatest leaders

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Review:

"A brilliant marriage of imagination and fact, a sweeping historical novel that brings our first president and his contemporaries to such vivid life that they seem to have walked out streets only yesterday. This is a wonderfully entertaining and thoroughly terrific book"
--Doris Kearns Goodwin

"A brisk, engaging, and far from worshipful portrait... [Martin] enlivens the novel with ribald humor and even some graphic sex scenes, humanizing Washington and delivering an entertaining slice of history."
--"Publishers Weekly

""The action is hair-raising... Martin brings the myth down to earth without destroying the man... It's almost an insult to call "Citizen Washington" fiction, since so many histories, past and present, and been far more biased, pro and con. This fiction is so complex in its understanding of humanity to seem actually true."
--"USA"" Today

""A strongly satisfying, eminently readable saga... Compelling biographical fiction."
--"Kirkus Reviews"

A brilliant marriage of imagination and fact, a sweeping historical novel that brings our first president and his contemporaries to such vivid life that they seem to have walked out streets only yesterday. This is a wonderfully entertaining and thoroughly terrific book

A brisk, engaging, and far from worshipful portrait [Martin] enlivens the novel with ribald humor and even some graphic sex scenes, humanizing Washington and delivering an entertaining slice of history."

""The action is hair-raising Martin brings the myth down to earth without destroying the man It's almost an insult to call "Citizen Washington" fiction, since so many histories, past and present, and been far more biased, pro and con. This fiction is so complex in its understanding of humanity to seem actually true."

""A strongly satisfying, eminently readable saga Compelling biographical fiction."

A brilliant marriage of imagination and fact, a sweeping historical novel that brings our first president and his contemporaries to such vivid life that they seem to have walked out streets only yesterday. This is a wonderfully entertaining and thoroughly terrific book. Doris Kearns Goodwin

A brisk, engaging, and far from worshipful portrait [Martin] enlivens the novel with ribald humor and even some graphic sex scenes, humanizing Washington and delivering an entertaining slice of history. "Publishers Weekly"

The action is hair-raising Martin brings the myth down to earth without destroying the man It's almost an insult to call "Citizen Washington" fiction, since so many histories, past and present, and been far more biased, pro and con. This fiction is so complex in its understanding of humanity to seem actually true. "USA Today"

A strongly satisfying, eminently readable saga Compelling biographical fiction. "Kirkus Reviews""

"A brilliant marriage of imagination and fact, a sweeping historical novel that brings our first president and his contemporaries to such vivid life that they seem to have walked out streets only yesterday. This is a wonderfully entertaining and thoroughly terrific book." --Doris Kearns Goodwin

"A brisk, engaging, and far from worshipful portrait... [Martin] enlivens the novel with ribald humor and even some graphic sex scenes, humanizing Washington and delivering an entertaining slice of history." --Publishers Weekly

"The action is hair-raising... Martin brings the myth down to earth without destroying the man... It's almost an insult to call Citizen Washington fiction, since so many histories, past and present, and been far more biased, pro and con. This fiction is so complex in its understanding of humanity to seem actually true." --USA Today

"A strongly satisfying, eminently readable saga... Compelling biographical fiction." --Kirkus Reviews

About the Author:

WILLIAM MARTIN, New York Times bestselling author of ten novels, is best known for his historical fiction, which has chronicled the lives of the great and the anonymous in American history while bringing to life legendary American locations, from Cape Cod to Annapolis. Martin's first novel, Back Bay, introduced Boston treasure hunter Peter Fallon, who continues to track artifacts across the landscape of our national imagination in more recent works like The Lost Constitution and City of Dreams. His novels, also including Harvard Yard, Citizen Washington, and The Rising of the Moon, have established him as a "storyteller whose smoothness equals his ambition" (Publishers Weekly). He has also written an award-winning PBS documentary, one of the cheesiest horror movies ever made, magazine articles, and book reviews for The Boston Globe. He was the recipient of the 2005 New England Book Award, given to "an author whose body of work stands as a significant contribution to the culture of the region." He has three grown children and lives near Boston with his wife.

About this edition

• Publisher: Grand Central Pub
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0446521728
• ISBN 13: 9780446521727
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 592