For King and Country: George Washington the Early Years - Softcover

Lewis, Thomas A.

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9780471104650: For King and Country: George Washington the Early Years

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ISBN 10: 0471104655 ISBN 13: 9780471104650

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1993

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"A daring book . . . a terrific story and Lewis tells it with rare narrative skill . . . a superb writer, with a startling command of the historian's art and a powerful interest in the moral aspects that history has always claimed. He also has in the young George Washington a subject of unfailing centrality and importance. His flaws, like those of any human figure worth his salt and worth our time, constitute the ground of his enduring human achievements." —Los Angeles Times Book Review

"The story is compelling and Lewis tells it well." —Library Journal

"Gracefully and attractively written." —Chicago Tribune

For King and Country is a portrait of an ordinary young man enmeshed in extraordinary events: the young George Washington caught up, and striving to excel, amid the bitter rivalry between the French and British for control of the American colonial frontier in the mid-eighteenth century.

Drawing heavily on Washington's own diaries, letters, and dispatches, Thomas A. Lewis follows the future president's remarkable rise from a callow young man with no inheritance, no trade, and few prospects to the respected commander-in-chief of the military forces of British America's foremost colony.

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A compelling narrative of George Washington during his formative decade, from the ages of 18 to 26. Describes Washington's rise from obscurity to acclaim revealing his arrogance, pride, fawning on superiors for approval and advancement, his occasional tampering with truth to achieve his goals--all contrasting with his courage under fire and his growing competence as a leader. Details what Washington should have known but did not about the frontier, the French, Indian traders and the Native Americans who were essential to his purposes.

About the Author:

THOMAS A. LEWIS is the author of The Guns of Cedar Creek and The Shenandoah in Flames, the former editor of Civil War magazine, and a roving editor for National Wildlife magazine, and has contributed to Smithsonian and Audubon magazines. He lives on the Shenandoah River in Virginia, not far from Washington's frontier headquarters at Winchester.

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