![]() ![]() ![]() His Excellency is a magnificent work, indispensable to an understanding not only of its subject but also of the nation he brought into being. We see the general who lost more battles than he won and the reluctant president who tried to float above the partisan feuding of his cabinet. Here is the free-spending landowner whose debts to English merchants instilled him with a prickly resentment of imperial power. ![]() Here is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose “statue-like solidity” concealed volcanic energies and emotions. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Ellis See Customer Reviews Select Format Hardcover 4.19 - 7.79 Paperback 4.29 - 16.47 Audio CD 4.19 Select Condition Like New - Very Good - Good 4. Ellis is a well-known author and history professor focusing on the revolutionary era. Ellis’ bestselling biography of our first President, published nearly a decade ago. To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. His Excellency: George Washington by Joseph J. His Excellency: George Washington is Joseph J. ![]()
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