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George Washington was a man who fascinated his contemporaries. Son of a Virginia family of modest means, almost entirely self-educated, ambitious for both material wealth and the high regard of others, Washington would rise through diligent application of his abilities to become the first general to win a modern revolutionary war, the first president of the United States, "the first in the hearts of his countrymen."

Albert Marrin, professor emeritus of history at Yeshiva University in New York City

Prologue A Man For His Times

3

(14)

A Man of Good Quality

17

(15)

The World on Fire

32

(30)

A Kind of Destiny

62

(33)

War and Washington

95

(43)

Pounds of Sorrow

138

(30)

Great Washington's Advance

168

(31)

The Thing is Done

199

(21)

The Sacred Fire of Liberty

220

(28)

The First and the Last

248

(11)

Notes

259

(6)

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265

(5)

Index

270

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George Washington & the Founding of a Nation

George Washington & the Founding of a Nation

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