George Washington: A Life in Books
- ISBN-10
- 0190456671
- ISBN-13
- 9780190456672
- Series
- George Washington
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 480
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Author
- Kevin J. Hayes
Description
"Revered as a general and trusted as America's first elected leader, George Washington is considered a great many things in the contemporary imagination, but an intellectual is not one of them. In correcting this longstanding misconception, George Washington: A Life in Books offers a stimulating literary biography that traces the effects of a life spent in self-improvement"--
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