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George Washington Reconsidered |
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Edited by Don Higginbotham |
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352 pages • 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 • 6 b&w illustrations |
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Cloth ISBN 0-8139-2005-1 $55.00 • Paper ISBN 0-8139-2006-X $22.50 |
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George Washington, heroic general of the Revolution, master of Mount Vernon, 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 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.
Contributors W. W. Abbott, University of Virginia Lee Baldwin Dalzell, Williams College Robert F. Dalzell Jr., Williams College Joseph J. Ellis, Mount Holyoke College Peter R. Henriques, George Mason University Don Higginbotham, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Edmund S. Morgan, Yale University Glen A. Phelps, Northern Arizona University Martin H. Quitt, University of Massachusetts, Boston Bruce A. Ragsdale, Federal Judicial History Office Dorothy Twohig, University of Virginia Gordon S. Wood, Brown University |
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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. |
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George Washington Reconsidered |
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http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/higginbotham.html |
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