- Biography, Biography & Autobiography, Generals, History
The author of seven highly acclaimed books, Joseph J. Ellis has crafted a landmark biography that brings to life in all his complexity the most important and perhaps least understood figure in American history, George Washington.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and epic.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- Joseph J. Ellis
- First published
- 2004
- Pages
- 352
- Publisher
- Random House Large Print, Vintage, Alfred A. Knopf
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780571212125
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“History first noticed George Washington in 1753, as a daring and resourceful twenty-one-year-old messenger sent on a dangerous mission into the American wilderness.”
Joseph John Ellis is an American historian and professor whose work focuses on the lives and times of the founders of the United States of America. He has won the Pulitzer prize for History - Wikipedia
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