You never forget your first : a biography of George Washington Alexis Coe.
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TextCopyright date: ©2020Description: xlii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780735224117; 0735224110Subject(s): Washington, George, 1732-1799 | Presidents -- United States -- Biography | United States -- Politics and government -- 1783-1789DDC classification: 973.41092 LOC classification: E312 | .C66 2021| Item type | Current location | Home library | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Central Library (CL) | Central Library (CL) | Lincoln Corner | 973.41092 COE (Browse shelf) | Not for loan | LC-176 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-250) and index.
You never forget your first: but you do misremember him -- Introduction: The thigh men of Dad history -- part 1. Reluctant rebel. His mother's son -- "Pleases my taste" -- "The world on fire" -- "Blow out my brains" -- The Widow Custis -- "I cannot speak plainer" -- "What manner of man I am" -- "The shackles of slavery" -- part 2. General George Washington's American Revolution: off the battlefied. Hardball with the Howe brothers -- The court of public opinion -- George Washington, Agent 711 -- Eight years away -- "From whence no traveller returns" -- part 3. Mr. President. Unretirement -- The Presidency; or, "The place of his execution" -- Infant nation -- "Political suicide" -- Farewell to "cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men" -- part 5. "I die hard." Final Retirement -- " 'Tis well" -- Epilogue.
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