Chernow, Ron.
New York : Penguin Books, 2011.
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• Includes bibliographical references (p. [859]-867) and index.
• Prelude: The portrait artist — pt. 1. The frontiersman. A short-lived family — Fortune’s favorite — Wilderness mission — Bloodbath — Shades of death — The soul of an army — A votary to love — Darling of a grateful country — pt. 2. The planter. The man of mode — A certain species of property — The prodigy — Providence — A world of his own — The Asiatic prince — A shock of electricity — pt. 3. The general. The glorious cause — Magnificent bluff — Land of freedom — The heights — All London afloat — Disaster — An indecisive mind — The crossing — The busy scenes of a camp — Darkness visible — Rapping a demigod over the knuckles — A dreary kind of place — The long retreat — Pests of society — The storm thickens — The traitor — Mutiny — Plundering scoundrels — The world turned upside down — Man of moderation — Closing the drama with applause — Cincinnatus — pt. 4. The statesman. American celebrity — Gentleman farmer — Devil’s bargain — The ruins of the past — A masterly hand — A house on fire — Rising sun — Mounting the seat — pt. 5. The president. The place of execution — Acting the presidency — The cares of office — Rays of genius — The traveling presidency — The state of the president — Capital matters — Southern exposure — Running into extremes — A tissue of machinations — Citizen Genet — Bring out your dead — Hercules in the field — Crowns and coronets — Mad dog — The colossus of the people — The master of farewells — Exiting the stage — pt. 6. The legend. Samson and Solomon — A mind on the stretch — Freedom — Homecoming.
• In Washington : a Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation, dashing forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and revealing an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people.
• Pulitzer Prize Award for Autobiography and Biography, 2011

Subjects:

• Washington, George, 1732-1799.
• Presidents — United States — Biography.
• Generals — United States — Biography.
• United States — History — 1783-1815.

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