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Original Title:	His Excellency: George Washington
ISBN:	1400032539 (ISBN13: 9781400032532)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	George Washington

His Excellency: George Washington

Joseph J. Ellis

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.93 | 34530 Users | 1265 Reviews

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Title	:	His Excellency: George Washington
Author	:	Joseph J. Ellis
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	November 8th 2005 by Vintage (first published 2004)
Categories	:	History. Biography. Nonfiction. Politics. Presidents. North American Hi.... American History

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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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I just returned from a visit to Washington, D.C. and Mount Vernon, so I'm in a patriotic mood. This is a very readable, enjoyable biography that attempts to explain Washington's character and motivations and to describe the influences which shaped his decisions.The book is fairly short and is written at a bird's-eye view, mostly lacking in the kind of human detail that I usually enjoy in a biography. It left me hungry for more details: I wanted to know more about his personal experience during

First response: Ellis pontificates beyond my comfort level. I enjoy grand sentences, but this is way to much. His flourishing, over-bloated style does little to represent Washington (who, Ellis admits, was not a high intellectual.) He definitely covers the highs and lows, but he offers an incredible amount of personal opinion and unsubstantiated analysis, and even second-guesses motives. I am glad to know about Washington's life, and to have insight about him, but I have enjoyed very little of

This was the first of two books I'm currently reading about George Washington. As part of my 2-year quest to read the top two biographies of each of our 43 U.S. Presidents, I began with this and Ron Chernow's behemoth "Washington: A Life," a far more comprehensive treatment.Initially I preferred Chernow's book, but as I started to compare the two for interpretation, Ellis's gorgeous narrative writing quickly won me over. While no where near the depth of Chernow's tome, Ellis covers all the main

Fun fact about George Washingtons: His last words were Tis well and his last action was to feel his dying pulse!

A very interesting bio of Washington, showing his political views, his moral and practical concerns about slavery, his role in the founding and sustaining of the new country, and his concerns with his long-term reputation. This is the first book in my new presidential bio challenge.

In a world filled with one-thousand page biographies, it was a pleasure to read a small one on Washington. Out of all of the Founding Fathers, I must have neglected Washington the most. He is our country's patron saint, boring and predictable. But, this book reveals a man who grappled with problems (the inefficiencies of the Articles of Confederation, how to get his sketchy-ass friends to pay him back, etc.) and who constantly failed only to get back up again. Not a bad read for a quarantine.

Don't ever read this book. Horrible history. Ellis is a modern secular liberal who does all he can to force Washington into that mold.