George Washington's America: A Biography Through His Maps

Schecter, Barnet

ISBN 10: 0802717489 / ISBN 13: 9780802717481

Published by Walker Books, 2010

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First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. (George Washington, presidents, biography) NOT AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT OUTSIDE OF THE UNITED STATES. Seller Inventory # SA09A-01903

Bibliographic Details

Title: George Washington's America: A Biography ...

Publisher: Walker Books

Publication Date: 2010

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included

Edition: 1st Edition

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Synopsis:

From his teens until his death, the maps George Washington drew and purchased were always central to his work. After his death, many of the most important maps he had acquired were bound into an atlas. The atlas remained in his family for almost a century before it was sold and eventually ended up at Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library.

Inspired by these remarkable maps, historian Barnet Schecter has crafted a unique portrait of our first Founding Father, placing the reader at the scenes of his early career as a surveyor, his dramatic exploits in the French and Indian War (his altercation with the French is credited as the war's spark), his struggles throughout the American Revolution as he outmaneuvered the far more powerful British army, his diplomacy as president, and his shaping of the new republic. Beautifully illustrated in color, with twenty-four of the full atlas maps, dozens more detail views from those maps, and numerous additional maps (some drawn by Washington himself), portraits, and other images-and produced in an elegant large format-George Washington's America allows readers to visualize history through Washington's eyes, and sheds fresh light on the man and his times.

Review:

Crunching historical time into familiar space, Schecter uses New York as a 'fixed point, a compass for orienting oneself amid the many disparate theaters and battles of the long, complex war.' Marching us through battle where today we bank and shop, learn and live, reinforces the lessons that our freedoms had to be earned, and were not guaranteed. (New York Times Book Review on The Battle for New York)

Barnet Schecter tells the extraordinary story of how Central Park and Fifth Avenue were battlefields in the struggle for American independence. (John Keegan on Thr Battle for New York)

Schecter's riveting narrative places the violence, dramatized by Martin Scorcese's Gangs of New York, in a national context, as a microcosm of forces that deferred integration for a century. (USA Today on The Devil's Own Work)