Flexner washington biography

  • James Thomas Flexner's twelve-volume biography of George Washington in a brilliant single-volume abridgment.
  • George Washington's life, as told by James Thomas Flexner, is simply amazing.
  • James Thomas Flexner (January 13, – February 13, ) was an American historian and biographer best known for the four-volume biography of George.

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    My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies

    &#;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  It has been widely read and well-admired ever since.

    In his effort to downsize the much longer series into a one-volume account of Washington&#;s life, Flexner succeeded admirably. &#;Washington: The Indispensable Man&#; is an engaging, articulate and clear rendition of Washington&#;s life from his humble beginning in Westmoreland County, Virginia to his death at Mount Vernon in the final days of Flexner&#;s style of writing in this book is more consistently contemporary than in his earlier, longer series and this book proves eminently readable throughout.

    In contrast to his four-volume se

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    George Washington: The Forge of Experience,

    March 18,
    "[how happenings would] terminate is known only to the great ruler of events; and confiding in his wisdom and goodness, we may safely trust the issue to him, without perplexing ourselves to seek for that which is beyond human ken, only taking care to perform the parts assigned to us in a way that reason and our own consciouses approve of."-George Washington

    So I've never read a presidential biography in my life. I'm starting at good old #1 and will continue, on and off, probably until some of the more modern presidents. I don't know if I want to read modern presidential biographies before history has had a chance to stew on them. After some googling I came upon this as one of the "best" biographies on Washington.

    This is the first in a four-volume biography, and takes us through Washington's early life up until his appointment by församling as the Commander in ledare of the Continental Army.

    George has been mythologized
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    I’m currently reading the fourth and final volume of James Thomas Flexner’s monumental biography of George Washington, Anguish and Farewell (). As the title implies, it covers Washington’s second term as president, from to , and the last two years of his life following his retirement from office till his death in December

    Flexner’s life of Washington is often hailed as the best cradle-to-grave biography ever written about the man known during the Revolution as “His Excellency.” His goal was to pull Washington down off the pedestal and humanize him, knocking away the accumulated myths and legends to reveal the real man who was vain, short-tempered, flirtatious with women not named Martha Washington, politically ambitious and calculated, obsessed with what today we would call his “brand,” and of course a slaveowner who demonstrated no qualms over the institution till very late in his life.

    Many writers who followed Flexner have had similar goals in regards to humanizing Washing