George Washington's War
by Chadwick /
2004 / English / PDF
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The American Revolution was won not on the battlefields, but in the
mind of George Washington. A compulsively readable narrative and
extensive new history, George Washington’s War illuminates how
during the war’s winter months the young general created a new
model of leadership that would become the foundation of the new
nation and the model for the American presidency.
The American Revolution was won not on the battlefields, but in the
mind of George Washington. A compulsively readable narrative and
extensive new history, George Washington’s War illuminates how
during the war’s winter months the young general created a new
model of leadership that would become the foundation of the new
nation and the model for the American presidency.
Based on more than 1,500 original sources and written in the
tradition of David McCullough’s John Adams, historian Bruce
Chadwick, Ph.D., dramatizes how the greatest threat to the American
Revolution was not the British Army, but the infancy of the United
States. During those terrible times, Washington had to create a
military with soldiers who most often quit after a brief
enlistment; deal with a backbiting and often uncaring Congress and
the emerging states; overcome starvation, mutinies and a smallpox
epidemic; and face winters so bitter that some of his men, without
blankets or shoes, would freeze to death. By holding together an
often despairing army and a disparate nation through creative,
ingenious and often shocking methods, and by supporting democratic
institutions to do so, Washington sired the republic that we know
today.
Based on more than 1,500 original sources and written in the
tradition of David McCullough’s John Adams, historian Bruce
Chadwick, Ph.D., dramatizes how the greatest threat to the American
Revolution was not the British Army, but the infancy of the United
States. During those terrible times, Washington had to create a
military with soldiers who most often quit after a brief
enlistment; deal with a backbiting and often uncaring Congress and
the emerging states; overcome starvation, mutinies and a smallpox
epidemic; and face winters so bitter that some of his men, without
blankets or shoes, would freeze to death. By holding together an
often despairing army and a disparate nation through creative,
ingenious and often shocking methods, and by supporting democratic
institutions to do so, Washington sired the republic that we know
today.
Authoritative and dramatically rendered, George Washington’s War is
a spellbinding account of the hardships and real-life events that
forged a great leader and a nation.
Authoritative and dramatically rendered, George Washington’s War is
a spellbinding account of the hardships and real-life events that
forged a great leader and a nation.
