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Author | : Joel Achenbach |
Publisher | : Simon & Schuster |
Total Pages | : 396 |
Release | : 2005-06-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780743263009 |
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The Grand Idea follows George Washington in the critical period immediately after the War of Independence. The general had great hopes for his young nation, but also grave fears. He worried that the United States was so fragmented politically and culturally that it would fall apart, and that the "West," beyond the Appalachian mountains, would become a breakaway republic. So he came up with an ambitious scheme: He would transform the Potomac River into the nation's premier commercial artery, binding East and West, bolstering domestic trade, and staving off disunion. This was no armchair notion. Washington saddled up and rode west on a 680-mile trek to the raucous frontier of America. Achenbach captures a Washington rarely seen: rugged frontiersman, real estate speculator, shrewd businessman. Even after his death, Washington's grand ambition inspired heroic engineering feats, including an audacious attempt to build a canal across the mountains to the Ohio River. But the country needed more than commercial arteries to hold together, and in the Civil War, the general's beloved river became a battlefield between North and South. Like such classics as Undaunted Courage and Founding Brothers, Achenbach's riveting portrait of a great man and his grand plan captures the imagination of the new country, the passions of an ambitious people, and the seemingly endless beauty of the American landscape.
Author | : Charles H. Ambler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : Ohio River Valley |
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Author | : Charles Henry Ambler |
Publisher | : Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1936 |
Genre | : Ohio River Valley |
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Author | : George Washington |
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Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1905 |
Genre | : Inland navigation |
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Author | : Charles Henry Ambler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Ohio River Valley |
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Author | : George Washington |
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Total Pages | : 250 |
Release | : 1911 |
Genre | : Inland navigation |
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Author | : Charles H. Hambler |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1936 |
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Author | : Austin Washington |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2014-02-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 162157220X |
Download The Education of George Washington Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
George Washington—a man of honor, bravery and leadership. He is known as America’s first President, a great general, and a humble gentleman, but how did he become this man of stature? The Education of George Washington answers this question with a new discovery about his past and the surprising book that shaped him. Who better to unearth them than George Washington’s great-nephew, Austin Washington? Most Washington fans have heard of “The Rules of Civility” and learned that this guided our first President. But that’s not the book that truly made George Washington who he was. In The Education of George Washington, Austin Washington reveals the secret that he discovered about Washington’s past that explains his true model for conduct, honor, and leadership—an example that we could all use. The Education of George Washington also includes a complete facsimile of the forgotten book that changed George Washington's life.
Author | : Robert J. Kapsch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 380 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
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Author | : George Washington |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780742533721 |
Download George Washington Remembers Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"George Washington Remembers makes this very personal and little-known document available for the first time and offers a glimpse of Washington in a self-reflective mood - a side of the man seldom seen in his other writings.