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Inventing George Washington: America's Founder, in Myth and Memory

Edward G. Lengel

3.8/5 ( ratings)

“Lengel’s Washington is the archetypal American soldier—an amateur citizen in arms who struggles to learn an unfamiliar and demanding craft on the job....Outstanding.” —Publishers Weekly on The Glorious Struggle

Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Papers Project Edward G. Lengel delivers an entertaining and erudite history of America's Founding Father. In Inventing George Washington, a captivating counterpart to Lengel’s General George Washington: A Military Life, the historian looks at Washington’s life and writings, at the creation of his mythos, and at what his legacy means for our nation and ourselves.

Language: English

Pages: 249

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harper

Release: January 18, 2011

ISBN: 0061662585

ISBN 13: 9780061662584

Inventing George Washington: America's Founder, in Myth and Memory

Edward G. Lengel

3.8/5 ( ratings)

“Lengel’s Washington is the archetypal American soldier—an amateur citizen in arms who struggles to learn an unfamiliar and demanding craft on the job....Outstanding.” —Publishers Weekly on The Glorious Struggle

Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Papers Project Edward G. Lengel delivers an entertaining and erudite history of America's Founding Father. In Inventing George Washington, a captivating counterpart to Lengel’s General George Washington: A Military Life, the historian looks at Washington’s life and writings, at the creation of his mythos, and at what his legacy means for our nation and ourselves.

Language: English

Pages: 249

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Harper

Release: January 18, 2011

ISBN: 0061662585

ISBN 13: 9780061662584

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