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Leading scholars define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president
Washington’s legacy is a successful experiment in collective leadership, great initiatives in establishing a strong executive branch and the formulation of innovative and lasting economic and foreign policies. Along with highlighting these accomplishments, the authors also trace Washington's later dissatisfaction with public life and the seeds of dissent and political parties that grew from his insistence on consensus. In this compelling and balanced biography, James McGregor Burns and Susan Dunn give us a rich and surprising portrait of the man behind the carefully crafted mythology.
Washington’s legacy is a successful experiment in collective leadership, great initiatives in establishing a strong executive branch and the formulation of innovative and lasting economic and foreign policies. Along with highlighting these accomplishments, the authors also trace Washington's later dissatisfaction with public life and the seeds of dissent and political parties that grew from his insistence on consensus. In this compelling and balanced biography, James McGregor Burns and Susan Dunn give us a rich and surprising portrait of the man behind the carefully crafted mythology.
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James MacGregor Burns is the Woodrow Wilson Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Williams College. He is the author of numerous books including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom. Susan Dunn is a professor of literature at Williams College and is the author of many books, including The Three Roosevelts (with Burns). Burns and Dunn live in Williamstown, Massachussetts.
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The Father of our Country is portrayed as a man obsessed with his own public image of virtue and selflessness. His efforts to shape himself, the book contends, were important because they also shaped our nation's actions and the role of the U.S. President. The biographers don't paint the first president as perfect, criticizing his failure to end slavery and noting that as a burgess in Virginia, Washington was concerned mainly with local issues and was slow to see the threat in British acts such as the Stamp Act. Richard Rohan takes on the mostly dispassionate tone of a lecturer. The biography works well as a general introduction to Washington's life. J.A.S. © AudioFile 2004, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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- PublisherMacmillan Audio
- Publication date2004
- ISBN 10 1559279931
- ISBN 13 9781559279932
- BindingAudio CD
- EditorSchlesinger Arthur M.
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