George Washington Reconsidered - Softcover

Don Higginbotham (editor)

Softcover

ISBN 10: 081392006X ISBN 13: 9780813920061

Publisher: University of Virginia Press, 2001

Synopsis

George Washington, heroic general of the Revolution, master of Mount Vemon, and first president of the United States, remains the most enigmatic figure of the founding generation, with historians and the public at large still arguing over the strengths of his character and the nature of his intellectual and political contributions to the early republic. Representing the finest recent scholarship on Washington, these thirteen essays by the leading scholars in the field strike a balance in their focus between Washington's personal life and character and his public life as a soldier and political figure. Editor Don Higginbotham provides an introduction about Washington and his treatment by historians and an afterword devoted to how the American people have viewed Washington, including the 1999 commemorations of the bicentennial of his death. With three essays written specifically for this volume, George Washington Reconsidered is the first collection of its kind to be published in over thirty years.

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About the Author

Don Higginbotham, author of George Washington and the American Military Tradition among numerous other books, is Dowd Professor of History and Peace, War, and Defense at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081392006X
• ISBN 13: 9780813920061
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352