Ebook {Epub PDF} Washington: The Indispensable Man by James Thomas Flexner

Washington: The Indispensable Man. After more than two decades, this dramatic and concise single-volume distillation of James Thomas Flexner's definitive four-volume biography "George Washington," which received a Pulitzer Prize citation and a National Book Award for the fourth volume, has itself become an American classic/5. I downloaded James Flexner’s “Washington: The Indispensable Man” () to refresh my knowledge of the American Revolution and the first presidency. Based upon a more detailed and scholarly four-volume study of Washington by the same author, “The Indispensable Man” makes a coherent and highly readable argument for its bltadwin.ru by: Washington: The Indispensable Man: Flexner, James Thomas: bltadwin.ru: Books. Buy used: $ FREE Shipping. Get free shipping. Free day shipping within the U.S. when you order $ of eligible items sold or fulfilled by Amazon. Or get business-day shipping on this item for $ (Prices may vary for AK and HI.)/5().

"Washington: The Indispensable Man" is James Thomas Flexner's single-volume abridgment of his epic four-volume series on George Washington published between and Flexner wasted little time accommodating those who implored him to author a biography accessible to a wider audience, and as a result this single-volume work was published in Washington: The Indispensable Man. Washington.: This "perceptive" and "satisfying" biography of George Washington by an award-winning historian "deserves a place on every American's bookshelf" (The New York Times Book Review). James Thomas Flexner's masterful four-volume biography of America's first president, which received. Washington: The Indispensable Man - Ebook written by James Thomas Flexner. Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while you read Washington: The Indispensable Man.

Washington - The Indispensable Man. Hardcover – January 1, by. James Thomas Flexner (Author) › Visit Amazon's James Thomas Flexner Page. Find all the books, read about the author, and more. See search results for this author. James Thomas Flexner (Author) out of 5 stars. In tracing Washington’s evolution from privileged son of the landed gentry to “the indispensable man” without whom the United States as we know it would not exist, Flexner presents a hero worthy of admiration not only for his remarkable strengths, but also for his all-too-human weaknesses. Washington owned slaves who worked on his plantation, Mount Vernon. Contradictorily, however, the author portrays him as a man so concerned about the welfare of others that he refused to sell his slaves to avoid separating family members, something that made him stand out in the Commonwealth of Virginia.