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George Washinigton: (Record no. 8991)

082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER
Classification number 973.410924 Fle
Item number 15
092 ## - LOCALLY ASSIGNED DEWEY CALL NUMBER (OCLC)
Classification number 973.410924 Fle
100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Flexner, James Thomas
245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT
Title George Washinigton:
Remainder of title The Forge of Experience ( 1732 - 1775 )
Statement of responsibility, etc James Thomas Flexner
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Name of publisher, distributor, etc Little, Brown & Co
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1965
Place of publication, distribution, etc Boston
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent ix, 390 p.
490 ## - SERIES STATEMENT
Series statement George Washington
Volume number/sequential designation Vol. 1
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note includes index and appendix A - D
505 ## - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Title


I.A self-made man. Birth of a hero --
Termagant and brother --
A Fairfax world --
Surveyor's wages --
Death and a beckoning mission --
II. War in the wilderness. Forest adventure --
Triggering the seven years' war --
Defeat and perhaps disgrace --
In and out of the Army --
Nightmare --
Commander in Chief of what --
Hysteria --
Washington turns to the crown --
To death's door --
Adventures of the heart --
Wrong road to victory --
III. True happiness. Domestic enjoyments --
Country squire --
Children not his own --
British debts versus American markets --
Eyes West --
IV. Road to revolution. Dragon's teeth --
The sucking vortex --
A dreadful trust --
V. Appendix. Washington's farewell to his officers, French and Indian War.
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc This volume tells about considerably more than half of George Washington's life, the forty - three years that elapsed from his birth to his acceptance, at the outbreak of the American Revolution, of the command of the Continental Army. In this volume, we shall seek the actual man who was the father of our country. George Washington was, of course, born with good material to work on, but the very passion and energy of his nature made it more difficult to direct. The young man we see in this volume drives fast and swerves again and again off the track - in his dark love for his neighbor's wife, in foolhardy maneuvers during the French and Indian War and unexalted scrambles for promotion - but always he swings back again, further ahead on the road to greatness. Washington was one of the very few Presidents of the United States whose formal studies had come to an end on the elementary school level. However, he possessed a transcendent ability to learn from living. This Volume presents the experiences from which George Washington learned, and tries to show, by his actions and his written thoughts, how he reacted at each stage of his long apprenticeship up to the moment when, formed by the years into a great leader, the American hero unsheathed the revolutionary sword.
600 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name George Washington
Title of a work Biography
Dates associated with a name 1732-1799
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element George Washington
Location of event United States
Form subdivision President
General subdivision Biography
Chronological subdivision 1732 - 1775
650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name as entry element United States
General subdivision Politics and government
Chronological subdivision Colonial period, 1600-1775.
942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA)
Koha item type 900 - 999
Source of classification or shelving scheme
Holdings
Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Permanent Location Current Location Cost, normal purchase price Full call number Barcode Date last seen Public note
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