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A carregar... Washington: The Indispensable Man (1974)por James Thomas Flexner
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I learned a lot. Washington is far more human to me now, but I like him even better ( ) "Washington: The Indispensable Man" is full of great information. Based on the author's 4-volume set (!) this covers the main points of most of Washington's life. Unfortunately, I found a good bit of Flexner's writing to be oddly worded and somewhat stuffy. I'm all for not ending sentences in prepositions, but many of his sentences seems to work very hard to follow that rule. There's little casualness to his style which can make for a more arduous read. An excellent one-volume abridgment of Flexner's old multivolume biography of Washington, updated here with a fine and comprehensive array of portraits, paintings, photographs of contemporary objects, full-color maps of battles, and primary source documents referenced in the text. Flexner's account of Washington manages to strip a bit of the demigod veneer off Washington without trashing him. Not quite as good as Chernow's biography, but the illustrations make it a fine and indispensable companion to that biography. I would recommend reading both. (Never read just one biography of a person.) sem crÃticas | adicionar uma crÃtica
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