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His name is carved in granite, his likeness cast in bronze, his legend as large as the role he played as America's first president. But before he was a commander-in-chief, George Washington was a general in a revolution that would decide the future of the people and land he called his own. If victorious, he would gain immortality. If defeated, he would find his neck in a hangman's noose. Washington knew the sting of defeat - at Brandywine, at Germantown - yet this unwavering leadership and his vision for a new and independent nation emboldened an army prepared to fight barefoot if necessary to win that independence. Wrote an officer after the Battle of Princeton: "I saw him brave all the dangers of the field and his important life hanging as it were by a single hair with a thousand deaths flying around him." Among America's pantheon of Founding Fathers, one man- to this day- stands out. Author Paul Vickery tracks the unlikely rise of Washington, a man whose stature in command of a young army became prelude to a presidency. As Vickery writes, "He learned to become the father of our country by first being the father of our military."
ISBN | 9781595552808 |
Categories | Biographies and Memoirs, Highlight, Non-Fiction, Non-Fiction: Humanities |
Author(s) | Vickery, Paul S. |
Publisher | Thomas Nelson |
Pages | - |
Format | Hardcover |
Dimensions | 21.4cm x 14cm x 14cm |
Weight | 0.44 kg |