Description
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.
Author: Don Higginbotham
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 03/01/2001
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 9.25h x 6.20w x 1.03d
ISBN13: 9780813920061
ISBN10: 081392006X
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Presidents & Heads of State
- History | United States | Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)
- Biography & Autobiography | Historical
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.