His Excellency
George Washington
Ranked #15 in Presidents, Ranked #28 in American Revolution — see more rankings.
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... more
Here is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. Here is the... more
Rankings by Category
His Excellency is ranked in the following categories:
- #47 in American History
- #99 in Biography
- #51 in US History
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