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Washington - A Life (Paperback)
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Washington - A Life (Paperback)
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List price R650
Loot Price R546
Discovery Miles 5 460
You Save R104 (16%)
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The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of
the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other
one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's
troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian
Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the
Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention
and his magnificent performance as America's first president.
Despite the reverence his name inspires Washington remains a
waxwork to many readers, worthy but dull, a laconic man of
remarkable self-control. But in this groundbreaking work Chernow
revises forever the uninspiring stereotype. He portrays Washington
as a strapping, celebrated horseman, elegant dancer and tireless
hunter, who guarded his emotional life with intriguing ferocity.
Not only did Washington gather around himself the foremost figures
of the age, including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John
Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, he orchestrated their actions to help
realise his vision for the new federal government, define the
separation of powers, and establish the office of the presidency.
Ron Chernow takes us on a page-turning journey through all the
formative events of America's founding. This is a magisterial work
from one of America's foremost writers and historians.
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