By Thomas Fleming
New York instances bestselling writer Thomas Fleming discovered that discovering the reality used to be no basic subject. reviews of Washington different sharply. a few historians made him godlike whereas different writers invented moralistic fables approximately him.
Fleming found the true George Washington via examining what the boys and ladies who knew him acknowledged approximately him of their letters and journals in addition to via Washington's personal correspondence. Slowly, the impressive individual in the back of the legend emerged.
In this publication, anecdotes from acquaintances and enemies alike supply a firsthand imaginative and prescient of Washington's personality. Little-known and colourful incidents - from Washington as an untutored boy of 11 to the pro basic and statesman he became - make First of their Hearts interesting and remarkable reading.
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