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A carregar... George Washington: Man and Monumentpor Marcus Cunliffe
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. This was a decent biography about this puzzling man. Even the author admits that, even with all of Washington's letters, and journals, recorded conversations, incidents in politics, there is really very little we know about him and how he truly felt about all sorts of issues and events, so in some things, all historians can only speculate since he revealed little of his own thoughts. It would be interesting to be able to talk to the man himself and get his take on so much. I often wonder, since all the historians seem to vary wildly on what Washington actually thought and felt about things, are they imputing to him what they would actually feel/think in a given situation? As the saying goes, "What we know of ourselves, we often suspect in others"-- and at some points in the book, when the author would say "we don't really know what Mr. Washington was thinking at this point, but maybe it was....", I often thought he might have been projecting himself in that situation. But all in all, from a historical perspective and covering major events that Washington himself was a witness to or involved in, I found the book enlightening. ( ) sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
Was it true that Washington was...cold, cautious, and obsequious-unapproachable even to his friends?...a man of vital passion and towering dignity-admired and loved by his soldiers?...a bumbling general forced into victory by the incompetence of his enemies?...a brilliant military leader, adept at the new ways of guerrilla warfare?...egocentric, with the dangerous pretensions of a Caesar?...a humble, modest man, sacrificing his own pleasure in his devotion to public duty? What was the myth?...What was the man? Step by step, author Marcus Cunliffe traces the ancestral background, the childhood, the growth, the failures and achievements of George Washington. He shows us a real person-fallible, ambitious, impatient of criticism, but of iron integrity-maturing from an eager youth to a wiser man. Cunliffe portrays the destiny of America, as it was mirrored for all time in the man who fought ambitions, uncertainties, and loneliness...who lived through Valley Forge and longed for home...who accepted the Presidency and desired peaceful retirement...who had a tender love for children, but childless, became to a young and needy nation the Father of his country...a man, with all his humanity, triumphant over the monument. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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