George Washington (The Library of American Freedoms)

Reissue. Bottom margin lightly stained. Binding tight and square, text clean and unmarked. 2001 Hard Cover. ix, 333 pp. Red-orange leatherette binding, gilt titles and rules, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers. A biography of George Washington, the first president of the United States of America, by Woodrow Wilson, the 28th president, with illustrations by Howard Pyle and others. Contents include: In Washington's Day; A Virginian Breeding; Colonel Washington; Mount Vernon Days; The Heat of Politics; Piloting a Revolution; General Washington; The Stress of Victory; First in Peace; The First President of the United States; Index. Illustrations include: George Washington; Head-Piece; A Virginia Plantation Wharf "They Read Only Upon Ocasion, When the Weather Darkened"; Facsimile of the Entry of Washington's Birth; Washington's and Mary Philipse; Leaving Mount Vernon for the Congress of the Colonies; In the Raleigh Tavern; Tail-Piece; Mrs. Washington's Arrival at Headquarters, Cambridge; Washington and Steuben at Valley Forge; The Escape of Arnold; Tail-Piece; Washington in the Garden at Mount Vernon; Washington Bringing his Mother intot he Ballroom, Fredericksburg; Mustered-Out-A Rest on the Way Home; Tail-Piece; Thompson, The Clerk of Congress, Announcing to Washington, at Mount Vernon, His Election to the Presidency; Death of Washington; Tail-Piece. …