Head of State (22-Feb-1732 — 14-Dec-1799)

SUBJECT OF BOOKS

Richard Brookhiser. Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. New York, NY: The Free Press. 1996.

Joseph J. Ellis. His Excellency: George Washington. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 2004. 275pp.

James R. Gaines. For Liberty and Glory: Washington, Lafayette, and Their Revolutions. New York: W. W. Norton & Co.. 2007. 533pp.

George Gibbs (editor). Memoirs of the Administrations of Washington and John Adams: Edited from the Papers of Oliver Wolcott, Secretary of the Treasury. New York: William Van Norden. 1846. 574pp. + 556pp.

Edward Lengel. General George Washington: America's First Commander In Chief. Westminster, MD: Random House Inc.. 2005. 450pp.

Edward G. Lengel. General George Washington: A Military Life. Random House. 2005. 450pp.

Henry Wiencek. An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. Gordonsville, VA: Farrar Straus & Giroux. 2003. 404pp.

PARALLELS

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1. NNDB [link]

2. Encyclopaedia Britannica Online [link]

3. Wikipedia [link]

4. Congressional Biography [link]

5. Encyclopaedia Britannica 11th Edition

6. Encyclopedia of American Biography (p.1176)

7. Chambers Biographical Dictionary, 5th Edition (p.1534)

8. Webster's American Biographies (p.1097)

9. The Oxford Companion to American Literature, 5th Edition (p.804)

10. Benet's Readers Encyclopedia, 4th Edition (p.1097)

11. The MacMillan Dictionary of Military Biography (pp.434-37)

12. Harper Encyclopedia of Military Biography (p.785)

13. Cambridge Dictionary of American Biography (p.773)

14. Hutchinson Paperback Dictionary of Biography (p.506)

15. Concise Biographical Dictionary of Famous Men and Women (p.715)

16. Concise Dictionary of American Biography (pp.1149-54)

17. The World Almanac Biographical Dictionary (p.188)

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