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- English
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Washington
About this book
His name is carved in granite, his likeness cast in bronze, his legend as large as the role he played as America's first president. But before he was a commander-in-chief, George Washington was a general in a revolution that would decide the future of the people and land he called his own. If victorious, he would gain immortality. If defeated, he would find his neck in a hangman's noose.
Washington knew the sting of defeat?at Brandywine, at Germantown?yet this unwavering leadership and his vision for a new and independent nation emboldened an army prepared to fight barefoot if necessary to win that independence. Wrote an officer after the Battle of Princeton: "I saw him brave all the dangers of the field and his important life hanging as it were by a single hair with a thousand deaths flying around him."
Among America's pantheon of Founding Fathers, one man?to this day?stands out. Author Paul Vickery tracks the unlikely rise of Washington, a man whose stature in command of a young army became prelude to a presidency. As Vickery writes, "He learned to become the father of our country by first being the father of our military."
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note from the Editor
- Prologue
- Introduction
- One: Preparation for Leadership
- Two: A Military Career Begins
- Three: Braddock’s Defeat
- Four: Road to Revolution
- Five: Commander in Chief
- Six: New York
- Seven: Long Island
- Eight: Harlem Heights and White Plains
- Nine: Trenton
- Ten: Princeton
- Eleven: Brandywine
- Twelve: Germantown
- Thirteen: Valley Forge
- Fourteen: Monmouth
- Fifteen: The Road to Yorktown
- Sixteen: Victory
- Seventeen: Presidency
- Legacy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author