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You never forget your first, a biography of George Washington, Alexis Coe

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You never forget your first, a biography of George Washington, Alexis Coe

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-250) and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

You never forget your first

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Alexis Coe

Sub title

a biography of George Washington

Table Of Contents

You never forget your first: but you do misremember him -- Introduction: The thigh men of Dad history -- part 1. Reluctant rebel. His mother's son -- "Pleases my taste" -- "The world on fire" -- "Blow out my brains" -- The Widow Custis -- "I cannot speak plainer" -- "What manner of man I am" -- "The shackles of slavery" -- part 2. General George Washington's American Revolution: off the battlefied. Hardball with the Howe brothers -- The court of public opinion -- George Washington, Agent 711 -- Eight years away -- "From whence no traveller returns" -- part 3. Mr. President. Unretirement -- The Presidency; or, "The place of his execution" -- Infant nation -- "Political suicide" -- Farewell to "cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men" -- part 5. "I die hard." Final Retirement -- " 'Tis well" -- Epilogue

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