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Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington - Softcover

Henriques, Peter R.

 
9780813927411: Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0813927412 ISBN 13: 9780813927411
Verlag: UNIV OF VIRGINIA PR, 2008

Inhaltsangabe

In Realistic Visionary the renowned George Washington scholar Peter Henriques seeks to humanize the first president without diminishing him. Henriques’s Washington makes mistakes, is sensitive to criticism, and is slow to accept blame, but he is also the greatest man of his age, a relentless pragmatist who could nonetheless envision what a free and united America could be for "millions unborn."

Rather than revisiting Washington’s life in its entirety, Henriques constructs a biographical portrait by addressing the vital themes and events through which Washington the man is revealed. What emerge most clearly in Realistic Visionary are Washington’s successful struggle to channel his monumental personal ambition into public service and his unrivaled ability to turn his ambitious visions for the fledgling nation into reality.

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Peter R. Henriques, Professor of History Emeritus at George Mason University, is the author of The Death of George Washington: He Died as He Lived.

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Verlag
UNIV OF VIRGINIA PR
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0813927412
ISBN 13 
9780813927411
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
256
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