George Washington: A Life

by Woodrow Wilson

Overview

"George Washington" is an intriguing biography of America's first president as told by the man who would later become its twenty-eighth, Woodrow Wilson. Wilson takes us on a journey from a look at Washington's times to his Virginia breeding to his life in colonial America. Wilson looks at how these factors shaped the man who would lead the nation in its fight for independence and into its first years as a new nation. This is an insightful look into our nation's early history by a man who would play a key part in it more than one hundred years later.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788826448930
Publisher:	Arcadia Press
Publication date:	06/06/2017
Sold by:	StreetLib SRL
Format:	eBook
File size:	355 KB

About the Author

In addition to his renown as the twenty-eighth President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson (1856–1924) was a noted scholar who taught ancient Greek and Roman history at Bryn Mawr College and Wesleyan University before serving as President of Princeton University. His other works include the five-volume History of the American People, published in 1902.

Table of Contents

I In Washington's Day 3

II A Virginian Breeding 45

III Colonel Washington 69

IV Mount Vernon Days 99

V The Heat of Politics 117

VI Piloting a Revolution 153

VII General Washington 179

VIII The Stress of Victory 213

IX First in Peace 233

X The First President of the United States 265

Index 315