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Nationwide BestsellerTo this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis provides the scholarship, wise analysis, and lyric writing which have made him among the leading historians of the Progressive period. Instruction his contact on a number who occasionally appears as distant as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis analyzes George Washington as a military and political leader and a guy whose “statue-like solidity” concealed volcanic powers and emotions. Here may be the impetuous young official whose remarkable success in fight half-persuaded him he couldn't be slain. This is actually the free-spending landowner whose obligations to English retailers developed him with a prickly bitterness of imperial power.