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You never forget your first : a biography of George Washington /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Coe, Alexis (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Penguin Books, [2021]
Subjects:
Washington, George, > 1732-1799.
United States > Politics and government > 1783-1789.
Presidents > United States > Biography.
Table of Contents:
  • You never forget your first: but you do misremember him
  • Introduction: The thigh men of Dad history
  • part 1. Reluctant rebel. His mother's son
  • "Pleases my taste"
  • "The world on fire"
  • "Blow out my brains"
  • The Widow Custis
  • "I cannot speak plainer"
  • "What manner of man I am"
  • "The shackles of slavery"
  • part 2. General George Washington's American Revolution: off the battlefied. Hardball with the Howe brothers
  • The court of public opinion
  • George Washington, Agent 711
  • Eight years away
  • "From whence no traveller returns"
  • part 3. Mr. President. Unretirement
  • The Presidency; or, "The place of his execution"
  • Infant nation
  • "Political suicide"
  • Farewell to "cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men"
  • part 5. "I die hard." Final Retirement
  • " 'Tis well"
  • Epilogue.