Washington: The Indispensable Man. James Thomas Flexner
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ISBN: 9780316286169 | 448 pages | 12 Mb
- Washington: The Indispensable Man
- James Thomas Flexner
- Page: 448
- Format: pdf, ePub, fb2, mobi
- ISBN: 9780316286169
- Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
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Overview
After more than two decades, this dramatic and concise single-volume distillation of James Thomas Flexner's definitive four-volume biography George Washington, which received a Pulitzer Prize citation and a National Book Award for the fourth volume, has itself become an American classic. Now in a new trade paperback edition, this masterful work explores the Father of Our Country - sometimes an unpopular hero, a man of great contradictions, but always a towering historical figure, who remains, as Flexner writes in these pages, "a fallible human being made of flesh and blood and spirit - not a statue of marble and wood... a great and good man." The author unflinchingly paints a portrait of Washington: slave owner,