Recollections And Private Memoirs Of Washington By His Adopted Son George Washington With A Memoir Of The Author By His Daughter And Illustrative And Explanatory Notes By Benson J Loosing

Author : George Washington
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Total Pages : 676 pages
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Download or read book Recollections and private memoirs of Washington by his adopted son George Washington with a memoir of the author by his daughter; and illustrative and explanatory notes by Benson J. Loosing written by George Washington and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jim Tildesley
Publisher : Troubador Publishing Ltd
ISBN 13 : 178901767X
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'I am Determined to Live or Die on Board My Ship.’ written by Jim Tildesley and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2019-04-02 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles S. Clark
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 147664411X
Total Pages : 238 pages
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Download or read book George Washington Parke Custis written by Charles S. Clark and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Washington Parke Custis (1781-1857) was raised at Mount Vernon by George and Martha Washington. Young "Wash" appears in Savage's 1789 painting of the first presidential family, his small hand placed symbolically on a globe. He would later make his mark on the national landscape by building Arlington House on the Potomac. A poor student, he emerged as an agricultural reformer and sought-after Federalist orator. He championed the plights of Irish Americans and war veterans. An important memoirist, he wrote well-received theatrical works and produced paintings rich in historical detail. Inheriting much of the vast Custis fortune, he also became the enslaver of more than 200 people. The slow march toward their emancipation became the central struggle of his life, particularly after his daughter's 1831 marriage to Robert E. Lee. This first full-length biography of Custis offers a 21st century reappraisal of life that dramatically bridged the American Revolution and the Civil War.

Author : s. austin allibone
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Total Pages : pages
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Download or read book a critical dictionary of english literature and british and american authors written by s. austin allibone and published by . This book was released on 1876 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 864 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Book Publishing Record Cumulative, 1876-1949 written by R.R. Bowker Company. Department of Bibliography and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 864 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : R.R. Bowker Company
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
ISBN 13 : 9780835216036
Total Pages : 1826 pages
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Download or read book Biographical Books, 1876-1949 written by R.R. Bowker Company and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 1983 with total page 1826 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book is a companion volume to Biographical books, 1950-1980, completing a comprehensive one hundred and five year bibliography of biographical and autobiographical works published or distributed in the United States"--Preface.

Author : David A. Bell
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 0374714746
Total Pages : 225 pages
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Download or read book Men on Horseback written by David A. Bell and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In his lucid and bracing history, [David] Bell helps us better understand how [a] charismatic grifter came to occupy the most powerful office in the world . . . Bell’s description of our predicament makes for essential reading." —Robert Zaretsky, Los Angeles Review of Books An immersive examination of why the age of democratic revolutions was also a time of hero worship and strongmen In Men on Horseback, the Princeton University historian David A. Bell offers a dramatic new interpretation of modern politics, arguing that the history of democracy is inextricable from the history of charisma, its shadow self. Bell begins with Corsica’s Pasquale Paoli, an icon of republican virtue whose exploits were once renowned throughout the Atlantic World. Paoli would become a signal influence in both George Washington’s America and Napoleon Bonaparte’s France. In turn, Bonaparte would exalt Washington even as he fashioned an entirely different form of leadership. In the same period, Toussaint Louverture sought to make French Revolutionary ideals of freedom and equality a reality for the formerly enslaved people of what would become Haiti, only to be betrayed by Napoleon himself. Simon Bolivar witnessed the coronation of Napoleon and later sought refuge in newly independent Haiti as he fought to liberate Latin America from Spanish rule. Tracing these stories and their interconnections, Bell weaves a spellbinding tale of power and its ability to mesmerize. Ultimately, Bell tells the crucial and neglected story of how political leadership was reinvented for a revolutionary world that wanted to do without kings and queens. If leaders no longer rule by divine right, what underlies their authority? Military valor? The consent of the people? Their own Godlike qualities? Bell’s subjects all struggled with this question, learning from each other’s example as they did so. They were men on horseback who sought to be men of the people—as Bell shows, modern democracy, militarism, and the cult of the strongman all emerged together. Today, with democracy’s appeal and durability under threat around the world, Bell’s account of its dark twin is timely and revelatory. For all its dangers, charisma cannot be dispensed with; in the end, Bell offers a stirring injunction to reimagine it as an animating force for good in the politics of our time.

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Total Pages : 986 pages
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Download or read book The Athenaeum written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 872 pages
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Download or read book The Saturday Review of Politics, Literature, Science and Art written by and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 872 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : James Silk Buckingham
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Total Pages : 944 pages
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Download or read book Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: