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＂ [Ellis has done it again. This is an important and challenging
work: beautifully written, lively, serious and engaging.” –The
Boston Globe
“Absorbing. . . . An incisive portrait [that] eloquently conveys
the magnitude of Washington’s accomplishments.” –The New York
Times
“Absolutely fascinating. . . . Underscores how extraordinary
Washington’s accomplishments really were.” –The Christian
Science Monitor
“Lively and engaging. . . . An accessible portrait. . . . Ellis
writes simply but
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To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J.
Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric
prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the
Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes
seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses
George Washington as a military and political leader and a man
whose “statue-like solidity” concealed volcanic energies and
emotions.
Here is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in
combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. Here is the
free-spending landowner whose debts to English merchants instilled
him with a prickly resentment of imperial power. We see the general
who lost more battles than he won and the reluctant president who
tried to float above the partisan feuding of his cabinet. His
Excellency is a magnificent work, indispensable to an
understanding not only of its subject but also of the nation he
brought into being.
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Joseph Ellis is the Pulitzer Prize_winning author of Founding
Brothers. His portrait of Thomas Jefferson, American
Sphinx, won the National Book Award. He lives in Amherst,
Massachusetts, with his wife, Ellen, and their youngest son,
Alex.
From the Hardcover edition.
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