Washington : a life
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| Support: | Livre |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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New York :
Penguin Press,
cop. 2010.
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| Autres localisations: | Voir dans le Sudoc |
Table des matières:
- Prelude: the portrait artist
- PART ONE: The frontiersman. A short-lived family
- Fortune's favorite
- Wilderness mission
- Bloodbath
- Shades of death
- The soul of an army
- A votary to love
- Darling of a grateful country
- PART TWO: The planter. The man of mode
- A certain species of property
- The prodigy
- Providence
- A world of his own
- The Asiatic prince
- A shock of electricity
- PART THREE: The general. The glorious game
- Magnificent bluff
- Land of freedom
- The heights
- All London afloat
- Disaster
- An indecisive mind
- The crossing
- The busy scenes of a camp
- Darkness visible
- Rapping a demigod over the knuckles
- A dreary kind of place
- The long retreat
- Pests of society
- The storm thickens
- The traitor
- Mutiny
- Plundering scoundrels
- The world turned upside down
- Man of moderation
- Closing the drama with applause
- Cincinnatus
- PART FOUR: The statesman. American celebrity
- Gentleman farmer
- Devil's bargain
- The ruins of the past
- A masterly hand
- A house on fire
- Rising sun
- Mounting the seat
- PART FIVE: The president. The place of execution
- Acting the presidency
- The cares of office
- Rays of genius
- The traveling presidency
- The state of the president
- Capital matters
- Southern exposure
- Running into extremes
- A tissue of machinations
- Citizen Genet
- Bring out your dead
- Hercules in the field
- Crowns and coronets
- Mad dog
- The colossus of the people
- The master of farewells
- Exiting the stage
- PART SIX:The legend. Samson and Solomon
- A mind on the stretch
- Freedom
- Homecoming