Washington : the indispensable man / James Thomas Flexner.
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Boston :
Little, Brown,
[1974]
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Table of Contents:
- A powerful apprenticeship (1732-1753)
- A clumsy entrance on the world stage (1753-1754)
- Love and massacre (1754-1755)
- Desperation and disillusionment (1755-1759)
- George Washington's first war (1753-1759)
- A Virginia businessman (1759-1775)
- Washington in his landscapes (1759-1775)
- A new call to arms (1765-1775)
- A Virginian in Yankee-land (1775)
- An early triumph (1775-1776)
- The Continental Army on trial (1776)
- Depths (1776-1777)
- Heights (1777)
- The loss of Philadelphia (1777)
- The Conway cabal (1777-1778)
- The road turns upward (1778)
- Hope abroad and bankruptcy at home (1778-1779)
- Enter a French army (1779-1780)
- Treason (1775-1780)
- Virginia endangered (1780-1781)
- Yorktown (1781)
- A gulf of civil horror (1781-1783)
- Goodbye to war (1775-1783)
- Pleasures at home (1783-1787)
- Canals and conventions (1783-1787)
- The Constitution of the United States (1787-1788)
- Hysteria and responsibility (1788)
- A second Constitutional Convention (1789)
- The social man (1789)
- Infighting foreshadowed (1790)
- The great schism opens (1790-1792)
- Europeans and Indians (1783-1791)
- Desire to escape (1791-1792)
- No exit (1790-1793)
- Bad omens (1792-1793)
- Earthquake faults (1793 and thereafter)
- A French bombshell (1793)
- Trouble all around (1793)
- A tragic departure (1793)
- Opposite hands across the ocean (1794)
- The Whiskey Rebellion (1790-1794)
- The Democratic Societies (1794)
- A disastrous document (1795)
- Tragedy with a friend (1795)
- Downhill (1795-1796)
- Washington's farewell address (1796)
- The end of the presidency (1796-1797)
- Home again (1797-1799)
- Mental confusion (1797-1798)
- Politics at sunset (1798-1799)
- Washington and slavery (1732-1799)
- Death of a hero (1799)