358 pps. Gilt titles: sp. Illust. w/ b/w tables & portraits. Red embossed bds. w/ blue cloth sp. Top edge sl. fx-ed. Interior leaves are clean and tight. Satirical analysis of the election of the first president running unopposed. A well researched commentary on the politics of the early republic. Includes notes, bibliography & index. A nice clean copy.

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Title: The Making of the President 1789: The Unauthorized Campaign Biography
Publisher: Harper & Row, New York
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0060159812
ISBN 13: 9780060159818
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: First Edition
Condition: Good+
Dust Jacket Condition: Good+ (mylar)

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A humorous look at Washington's political campaign

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A biography of George Washington like none other, this revealing portrait brings the sanctified first president down to human scale. Iconoclast Kitman ( George Washington's Expense Account ) portrays him as an incompetent war general, a wheeler-dealer, a land-grabber, "an intimate of every major financial crook and market manipulator." We are told that Prefident Washington (to use the colonial typography) autocratically opposed a multi-party system, and that his elevation from Virginia planter to leader was engineered by a Mount Vernon political machine. Kitman piles on whimsy and clever anachronisms in an effort to lighten the strong populist thrust of his portrayal. There is also much about Washington's false modesty, his drinking habits, his womanizing and his extravagant personal spending even when in debt.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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