To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose “statue-like solidity” concealed volcanic energies and emotions.
Here is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. Here is the free-spending landowner whose debts to English merchants instilled him with a prickly resentment of imperial power. We see the general who lost more battles than he won and the reluctant president who tried to float above the partisan feuding of his cabinet. His Excellency is a magnificent work, indispensable to an understanding not only of its subject but also of the nation he brought into being.
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今天的美国以一种年轻的姿态，不论是外交的强权还是经济、技术与人才的集聚，多元民族文化的碰撞融合，赢得了人们的梦想与向往。而The United States称谓的美利坚合众国经历过怎样的缔造和成长，华盛顿是怎样成为美国第一任总统？当年的波托马克河边将出现的城市——今...
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评分如果要评选千年来最伟大的人，我应该会投票给华盛顿，就因为那史上最伟大的退场，1783年的安纳波利斯。 对于历史人物，随着他们的逐渐远去，我们越来越难去真切的了解他们的行为和内心，尤其是对华盛顿这种活着时就已被当作尘世圣徒的人。围绕他的生平，历史上各路传记作者极尽...
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