{"product_id":"his-excellency-george-washington-9781400032532","title":"His Excellency: George Washington","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Bestseller\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose \"statue-like solidity\" concealed volcanic energies and emotions.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. Here is the free-spending landowner whose debts to English merchants instilled him with a prickly resentment of imperial power. We see the general who lost more battles than he won and the reluctant president who tried to float above the partisan feuding of his cabinet. \u003cb\u003eHis Excellency\u003c\/b\u003e is a magnificent work, indispensable to an understanding not only of its subject but also of the nation he brought into being.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joseph J. Ellis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/08\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.79lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.99h x 5.17w x 0.78d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781400032532\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAccelerated Reader:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReading Level:\u003c\/b\u003e 12.7\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePoint Value:\u003c\/b\u003e 23\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eInterest Level:\u003c\/b\u003e Upper Grade\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eQuiz #\/Name: \u003c\/b\u003e86485 \/ His Excellency: George Washington\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eIngram Advance\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2005 pg. 35\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKliatt\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/2006 pg. 28\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Ellis is the Pulitzer Prize_winning author of \u003ci\u003eFounding Brothers\u003c\/i\u003e. His portrait of Thomas Jefferson, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Sphinx\u003c\/i\u003e, won the National Book Award.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eHe lives in Amherst, Massachusetts, with his wife, Ellen, and their youngest son, Alex.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"booksdeli.com","offers":[{"title":"Joseph J. Ellis \/ Paperback \/ English","offer_id":47659116822685,"sku":"9781400032532","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0619\/5648\/9373\/files\/img_723c3aae-39b5-4612-ac15-ae87863891fc.jpg?v=1771350591","url":"https:\/\/booksdeli.com\/products\/his-excellency-george-washington-9781400032532","provider":"booksdeli.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}