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“A vivid portrait…A thoughtful consideration of Washington’s wisdom that couldn’t be timelier.” — Kirkus Reviews (starred review) George Washington’s Farewell Address was a prophetic letter from a “parting friend” to his fellow citizens about the forces he feared could destroy our democracy: hyper-partisanship, excessive debt, and foreign wars. Once celebrated as civic scripture, more widely reprinted than the Declaration of Independence, the Farewell Address is now almost forgotten. Its message remains starkly relevant. In Washington’s Farewell , John Avlon offers a stunning portrait of our first president and his battle to save America from self-destruction. At the end of his second term, Washington surprised Americans by publishing his Farewell message in a newspaper. The President called for unity among “citizens by birth or choice,” advocated moderation, defended...
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- Author
- John Avlon
- Publisher
- Simon & Schuster
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781476746487
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Fiction, Memoir, History
- Rating
- 4.13 / 5 (198 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-13
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