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- 题名/责任者:
- Washington : a life / Ron Chernow.
- 出版发行项:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2010.
- ISBN:
- 9780143119968 (pbk.)
- ISBN:
- 9781594202667
- ISBN:
- 1594202664
- 载体形态项:
- xxi, 904 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
- 个人责任者:
- Chernow, Ron.
- 个人名称主题:
- Washington, George,-1732-1799.
- 论题主题:
- Presidents-United States-Biography.
- 论题主题:
- Generals-United States-Biography.
- 地理名称主题:
- United States-History-1783-1815.
- 中图法分类号:
- K837.127
- 书目附注:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [859]-867) and index.
- 内容附注:
- Prelude: the portrait artist -- PART ONE: The frontiersman. A short-lived family -- Fortune's favorite -- Wilderness mission -- Bloodbath -- Shades of death -- The soul of an army -- A votary to love -- Darling of a grateful country -- PART TWO: The planter. The man of mode -- A certain species of property -- The prodigy -- Providence -- A world of his own -- The Asiatic prince -- A shock of electricity -- PART THREE: The general. The glorious game -- Magnificent bluff -- Land of freedom -- The heights -- All London afloat -- Disaster -- An indecisive mind -- The crossing -- The busy scenes of a camp -- Darkness visible -- Rapping a demigod over the knuckles -- A dreary kind of place -- The long retreat -- Pests of society -- The storm thickens -- The traitor -- Mutiny -- Plundering scoundrels -- The world turned upside down -- Man of moderation -- Closing the drama with applause -- Cincinnatus -- PART FOUR: The statesman. American celebrity -- Gentleman farmer -- Devil's bargain -- The ruins of the past -- A masterly hand -- A house on fire -- Rising sun -- Mounting the seat -- PART FIVE: The president. The place of execution -- Acting the presidency -- The cares of office -- Rays of genius -- The traveling presidency -- The state of the president -- Capital matters -- Southern exposure -- Running into extremes -- A tissue of machinations -- Citizen Genet -- Bring out your dead -- Hercules in the field -- Crowns and coronets -- Mad dog -- The colossus of the people -- The master of farewells -- Exiting the stage -- PART SIX:The legend. Samson and Solomon -- A mind on the stretch -- Freedom -- Homecoming.
- 摘要附注:
- In "Washington : a Life" celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation, dashing forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and revealing an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people.
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