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ISBN: 0805027793
Author: Willard Sterne Randall
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co; 1st edition (November 1, 1997)
Language: English
Pages: 548
ePub: 1957 kb
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Rating: 4.9
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Category: Biography
Subcategory: Leaders and Notable People

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Willard Sterne Randall is the author of six full-length biographies, among other books, and his newest book is Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution (St. His next book, The Founders’ Fortunes: How Money Shaped the Birth of America is forthcoming from Dutton in 2020.

Willard Sterne Randall lives in Burlington, Vermont. His Thomas Jefferson was hailed by The Wall Street Journal as "outstanding. a splid one-volume biography.

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Willard Sterne Randall is an American historian and author who specializes in biographies related to the American colonial period and the American Revolution. He teaches American history at Champlain College in Burlington, Vermont. Unshackling America: How the War of 1812 Truly Ended the American Revolution. ISBN 978-1-25015918-2. 2. Contemporary Authors, vol. 196. pp. 305–323. 3. Who's Who in America, 2011. Appearances on C-SPAN.

George Washington, A Life book. George Washington is the human story of a man who turned.

In the normal course of events, George Washington would have become an Oxford don, following in the footsteps of his English ancestors

In the normal course of events, George Washington would have become an Oxford don, following in the footsteps of his English ancestors. Washington – a descendant of King Edward III through his paternal grandmother - was robbed of a university education by a revolution in England a century before he was born. Had there been no English Civil War in the 1640s, his family would never have left England. George Washington became the most important – and beloved - man in America, the one on whom the fate of his countrymen and women depended.

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Willard Randall focuses on George Washington the man by providing you with an interesting insight into Washington's personal relationships, his shortcomings and his ambitions

Willard Randall focuses on George Washington the man by providing you with an interesting insight into Washington's personal relationships, his shortcomings and his ambitions. It does an excellent job of describing the environment and events which led Washington to make the decision to lead the Continental army against the British knowing that he would lose everything if he was not successful.

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As the two hundredth anniversary of the first president's death approaches, an acclaimed biographer explores Washington's life from a personal rather than political perspective, sharing the story of his life as a man rather than a leader. 35,000 first printing.

Comments: (7)

Ceroelyu

I loved this book. First of all, it taught me so much more of Washington, the man. He was certainly always a great patriot, even returning to the call of duty after all he really wanted to do was retire to his beloved Mount Vernon. Secondly, the book cleared up some of the battles Washington participated in during the French and Indian Wars and the Revolution. He remained humble and thoroughly kept his same convictions all through his life. If you want to know why this man was called The Father of His Country, read this book. It was not just because he was the first president. Now why I did not give it the fifth star has nothing to do with the written material of the book itself, but the terrible way it has been transcribed for e-readers. Periods and commas and capital letters where they don't belong; names spelled two different ways. It constantly trips you up and makes for difficult reading.

Yojin

Good book, but the Kindle version is full of glaring grammatical errors. For instance, EVERY time the book refers to George and his family, it refers to them as "the Washington" instead of "the Washingtons." Every time! What's up with that? It was so consistent that I was starting to think that I was the one who was wrong - maybe it IS "the Washington." LOL. (I don't think so). There are periods in the middle of sentences. Don't get me wrong, there's not an error on every page, but there are way more of them than you would encounter in any professionally published book. It creates a feeling of it being poor quality, which is unfortunate for the author.

Liarienen

The scholarship of the work was truly excellent. Randall draws from the writings of the participants in the biography (especially Washington's). He claims Washington was not a Christian, because he stopped taking communion. I was open to that argument, but he never qualified it and then seemed to contradict it often with the circumstances of Washington's life (vestry in his church, church every Sunday, contributing to build a church, etc..)

He also mentions that Washington was really into Masonry briefly in this book. (About two sentences in the entire book). I understand that this is an assumption of many because he did join a lodge, but I would have liked a little more evidence in this regard as well.

At times, the author repeats himself. This caused me to wonder if I was in the correct place in the book.

Now that I have the issues why I did not give it 5 stars, let me talk about the positives. He demonstrates how his relationship with his mother and his heritage formed in Washington many of the attributes that we regard positively today. He also does an excellent job of humanizing the mythical Washington. There were times when I was supremely disappointed in Washington, but that should be the case, if Washington has faults like any human being does. I loved how the author gave the details of so many issues and then gave an overall summary that was completely supported by the facts.

One last complaint. I would have liked a summary at the end of the book, like the one he gave for how Washington took into consideration men's motives in order to get the most out of the Revolution. The book ends a little abruptly.

I would highly recommend the book!

Hinewen

At first I was richly satisfied reading about this person I had heard of all my life. The book turned him into a human being for me. I learned about his immediate family and that he had learned the skills of a surveyor at the age of 15 and could earn money for himself at a young age. Soon though, the author got into so much detail related to the independence movement that I got pretty bored! In addition, if anyone was supposed to have edited this book, they should give back any money they received! Misspellings, free use of capitalizations in mid-sentence, abounded. I had never before seen a book that badly edited. I am glad that I read it for the story of George Washington's life. I certainly learned a great deal about the man and the era.

Andromakus

This is an excellent, detailed, insightful book about the life of George Washington. However, it is obvious that it was converted to digital form through an optical character reading (OCR) process that was not cleaned up properly afterwards, leaving huge errors which made reading and deciphering the meaning of sentences very difficult. Most were just annoying, such as the missing "s" at the end of each plural "Washingtons", which caused confusion as to whether the author was referring to the couple or to the man himself. Periods and other punctuation would appear randomly in sentences altering their meaning. Only careful backtracking and parsing of the apparent fragments revealed the intent of the phrase in question. Then there were other completely confusing details such as the year "17%" and an "814 x 6% piece of paper", where the reader was left to make their best guess. My conclusion for the latter was an 8"x 6" piece of paper, and year 1799 for the former.

Yet despite the multitude of grammatical trip hazards, the book is well research and cited. If the editors responsible for the book would actually read it and correct the myriad of OCR conversion errors (the errors increase prolifically as the book proceeds forward), it would receive a 5 star rating from me. As-is... Just three stars.

Daigami

I would have given this book five stars except for the shocking amount of punctuation errors. Whoever was responsible for converting this book to the Kindle e-reader format should be fired. Good grief was no one responsible for verifying that the book had been successfully converted to the Kindle version?

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