![]() Through Ellis’s artful narration, we look inside Washington’s marriage and his subsequent entrance into the upper echelons of Virginia’s plantation society. He richly details Washington’s private life and illustrates the ways in which it influenced his public persona. ![]() ![]() Ellis illuminates the difficulties the first executive confronted as he worked to keep the emerging country united in the face of adversarial factions. With his careful attention to detail and his lyrical prose, Ellis has set a new standard for biography.ĭrawing from the newly catalogued Washington papers at the University of Virginia, Joseph Ellis paints a full portrait of George Washington’s life and career–from his military years through his two terms as president. Ellis has crafted a landmark biography that brings to life in all his complexity the most important and perhaps least understood figure in American history, George Washington. ![]() The author of seven highly acclaimed books, Joseph J. ![]()
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