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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和托马斯.杰佛逊渊博的学识以及本杰明.富兰克林耀眼的智商和亚历山大.汉弥尔顿杰出的才华不一样的是，鲁莽而又固执的乔治.华盛顿只有相当于小学教育程度的学历，是一个对于执著于追求对土地的拥有权的人。终其一生，其所指挥的战争失败的次数远大于胜利的次数；他没能够解放属...
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評分华盛顿的历史地位自不待言，亨利·李曾用了“三个第一”来形容美国的国父：“战争中的第一人，和平时期的第一人，同胞心目中的第一人”。对于这样一个伟人，很多传记作家、艺术家都不吝笔墨，大肆渲染其伟大光辉的形象，甚至将其捧至云端，奉为圣人。但在美国传记作家约瑟夫·J...
評分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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