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In this deeply significant work, James Thomas Flexner has given life to the stony image of George Washington, which stares at us so impersonally from Mount Rushmore , the dollar bill, and the schoolroom wall. With a clear, swiftly readable style, Flexner shows the wholly human way in which the character of one of the greatest men in history was shaped and how it, in turn, shaped his achievements. Able and energetic, impulsive and vulnerable, Washington from the first had major virtues but he was also fallible. Put into a position of leadership in the French-Indian conflict at the age of twenty-two a position for which he was not yet ready the young Lieutenant Colonel initiated actions which showed more bravery than good judgment. His hasty attack in the forest, on what the French insisted was a party escorting an ambassador, proved to be the first show fired in the global Seven Years' War. Yet each mistake and success of these early years was part of the vast experience which ultimately molded Washington into what Flexner calls "one of the noblest and greatest men who ever lived," a man prepared to become, during the American Revolution, "more than a military leader: he was th

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Author

Flexner, James Thomas, 1908-2003

Publisher

Little, Brown and Company

Published

1965

Language

EN

ISBN

9780316285971

Category

history

Subjects

Memoir, Fiction, History

Rating

4.27 / 5 (100 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14