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In olden times before cameras and voice recorders, friends and acquaintances often gave one another strands of hair as keepsakes. Long ago, someone placed…
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Best-selling historian Nathaniel Philbrick once again takes readers deep into the American Revolution, leading them into battles and illuminating the…
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Using Washington's extensive but often overlooked financial papers, Edward G. Lengel chronicles the fascinating and inspiring story of how this…
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Best-selling historian Nathaniel Philbrick once again takes readers deep into the American Revolution, leading them into battles and illuminating the…
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Conceived soon after the American Revolution ended, the great monument to George Washington was not finally completed until almost a century later; the…
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For George Washington, the stakes were high. If the nation fragmented, as it had almost done after the war, it could never become the strong, independent…
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Sarah Vowell is the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot. Her latest look at history is an insightful and…
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In The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important—yet almost always…
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George Washington was famously unknowable, a man of deep passions hidden behind a facade of rigid self-control. Yet before he was a great general and…
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Although the framers gave the president little authority, George Washington knew whatever he did would set precedents for generations of future leaders.…