Washington: A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)From the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States. |
Contents
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Shades of Death | 52 |
The Soul of an Army | 63 |
29 | 70 |
A Votary to Love | 76 |
Cincinnatus | 448 |
American Celebrity | 461 |
Gentleman Farmer | 476 |
Devils Bargain | 485 |
The Ruins of the Past | 497 |
A Masterly Hand | 508 |
A House on Fire | 520 |
Rising Sun | 533 |
Darling of a Grateful Country | 87 |
The Planter | 95 |
A Certain Species of Property | 109 |
The Prodigy | 121 |
Providence | 127 |
The Asiatic Prince | 152 |
A Shock of Electricity | 165 |
The Glorious Cause | 181 |
Magnificent Bluff | 194 |
Land of Freedom | 206 |
The Heights | 222 |
All London Afloat | 234 |
Disaster | 244 |
An Indecisive Mind | 257 |
The Crossing | 269 |
The Busy Scenes of a Camp | 285 |
Darkness Visible | 300 |
Rapping a Demigod over the Knuckles | 312 |
A Dreary Kind of Place | 323 |
The Long Retreat | 337 |
Pests of Society | 347 |
The Storm Thickens | 358 |
The Traitor | 371 |
Mutiny | 388 |
Plundering Scoundrels | 398 |
The World Turned Upside Down | 406 |
Man of Moderation | 424 |
Closing the Drama with Applause | 437 |
Mounting the Seat | 542 |
The Place of Execution | 559 |
Acting the Presidency | 574 |
The Cares of Office | 586 |
Rays of Genius | 595 |
The Traveling Presidency | 608 |
The State of the President | 618 |
Capital Matters | 629 |
Southern Exposure | 642 |
Running into Extremes | 656 |
A Tissue of Machinations | 669 |
Citizen Genet | 684 |
Bring Out Your Dead | 700 |
Hercules in the Field | 711 |
Crowns and Coronets | 723 |
Mad Dog | 729 |
The Colossus of the People | 740 |
The Master of Farewells | 752 |
Exiting the Stage | 764 |
The Legend | 773 |
A Mind on the Stretch | 792 |
Freedom | 799 |
Homecoming | 805 |
Acknowledgments | 819 |
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