The Education of George Washington - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Education of George Washington write by Austin Washington. This book was released on 2014-02-10. The Education of George Washington available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. George Washington—a man of honor, bravery and leadership. He is known as America’s first President, a great general, and a humble gentleman, but how did he become this man of stature? The Education of George Washington answers this question with a new discovery about his past and the surprising book that shaped him. Who better to unearth them than George Washington’s great-nephew, Austin Washington? Most Washington fans have heard of “The Rules of Civility” and learned that this guided our first President. But that’s not the book that truly made George Washington who he was. In The Education of George Washington, Austin Washington reveals the secret that he discovered about Washington’s past that explains his true model for conduct, honor, and leadership—an example that we could all use. The Education of George Washington also includes a complete facsimile of the forgotten book that changed George Washington's life.
A Powerful Mind
A Powerful Mind - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Powerful Mind write by Adrienne M. Harrison. This book was released on 2015-10. A Powerful Mind available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. His formal schooling abruptly cut off at age eleven, George Washington saw his boyhood dream of joining the British army evaporate and recognized that even his aspiration to rise in colonial Virginian agricultural society would be difficult. Throughout his life he faced challenges for which he lacked the academic foundations shared by his more highly educated contemporaries. Yet Washington's legacy is clearly not one of failure. Breaking new ground in Washington scholarship and American revolutionary history, Adrienne M. Harrison investigates the first president's dedicated process of self-directed learning through reading, a facet of his character and leadership long neglected by historians and biographers. In A Powerful Mind, Harrison shows that Washington rose to meet these trials through a committed campaign of highly focused reading, educating himself on exactly what he needed to do and how best to do it. In contrast to other famous figures of the revolution--Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin--Washington did not relish learning for its own sake, viewing self-education instead as a tool for shaping himself into the person he wanted to be. His two highest-profile and highest-risk endeavors--commander in chief of the Continental Army and president of the fledgling United States--are a testament to the success of his strategy.
George Washington: A Life in Books
George Washington: A Life in Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook George Washington: A Life in Books write by Kevin J. Hayes. This book was released on 2017-04-03. George Washington: A Life in Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly dismissed him as "too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation." Yet Adams, as well as the majority of the men who knew Washington in his life, were unaware of his singular devotion to self-improvement. Based on a comprehensive amount of research at the Library of Congress, the collections at Mount Vernon, and rare book archives scattered across the country, Kevin J. Hayes corrects this misconception and reconstructs in vivid detail the active intellectual life that has gone largely unnoticed in conventional narratives of Washington. Despite being a lifelong reader, Washington felt an acute sense of embarrassment about his relative lack of formal education and cultural sophistication, and in this sparkling literary biography, Hayes illustrates just how tirelessly Washington worked to improve. Beginning with the primers, forgotten periodicals, conduct books, and classic eighteenth-century novels such as Tom Jones that shaped Washington's early life, Hayes studies Washington's letters and journals, charting the many ways the books of his upbringing affected decisions before and during the Revolutionary War. The final section of the book covers the voluminous reading that occurred during Washington's presidency and his retirement at Mount Vernon. Throughout, Hayes examines Washington's writing as well as his reading, from The Journal of Major George Washington through his Farewell Address. The sheer breadth of titles under review here allow readers to glimpse Washington's views on foreign policy, economics, the law, art, slavery, marriage, and religion-and how those views shaped the young nation.. Ultimately, this sharply written biography offers a fresh perspective on America's Father, uncovering the ideas that shaped his intellectual journey and, subsequently, the development of America.
Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation
Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation write by George Washington. This book was released on 2007-06-01. Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
A Picture Book of George Washington
A Picture Book of George Washington - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Picture Book of George Washington write by David A. Adler. This book was released on 2018-01-01. A Picture Book of George Washington available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "A lively fife and drum playing Yankee-Doodle-Dandy welcome the listener...A narrative tone that is sincere and respectful and a slow, even pace afford the young listener time to absorb facts." - AudioFile Magazine
