Joseph J. Ellis: His Excellency: George Washington

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His Excellency: George Washington

As commander of the Continental army, George Washington united the American colonies, defeated the British army, and became the world's most famous man. But how much do Americans really know about their first president? Today, as Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph J. Ellis says in this crackling biography, Americans see their first president on dollar bills, quarters, and Mount Rushmore, but only... (read more)

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“This is the fourth book I've read on Washington and when one starts to read more than one biography on the same historical character it either becomes an enlightening and multidimensional experience or a painful exercise in repetition. Happily, the former is true in my own search for the real George Washington. Joseph Ellis was successful with the word brush in painting a very unique portrait of our nation's first President.

As he did with his biography on Jefferson, Ellis offers...”

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