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Book Review: Realistic Visionary A Portrait of George Washington

Introduction
Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington by Peter Henriques tries to explain the first president of the United States of America as a person and not a symbol as most books have done. It is because it focusses on both his public and private life. The author looks at the reputation of George Washington as he tries to merge them with the facts about him. The book describes the first president as a war hero who is very serious and uptight. It means that the book explains the character of the president and relates it with the way he ...

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The book George Washington in the American Revolution by James Thomas Flexner is a book that covers the period of the revolutionary war in the United States of America. The book captures the key moments of George Washington; from the time of his selection as the commander of Continental Army to the moment he resigned and handed over his sword to the American Congress in the year 1783. The author covers that period and places much focus on the personal experience of George Washington in the army, while at the same time dwelling a little on the revolution in other colonies.
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History breeds nobility. The American President George Washington needs no introduction; who was a great political leader with a heart of gold that always thought about the people. He served as the first president of the United States and paved the way for the institution and his work procedure, legal policies and constituencies become the foundation of the American Presidency. However, despite his two-term service as the Chief Magistrate of a great nation, his early life was a mystery which was presented to the audience through the book "Ten Facts About Washington’s Presidency''. The story of his life ...

George Washington’s crossing of the Delaware is one of the most iconic images in American history; as such, there has been quite a bit of historiography on the subject itself. This latest entry into the scholarship of the Battle of Trenton, George Washington’s Surprise Attack: A New Look at the Battle that Decided the Fate of America, is a wonderful entry that taught me a lot about this fascinating battle in American history.
At first, I was somewhat daunted by the books 600+ page length – how detailed could a recounting of a single battle of the Revolutionary War be? – but as ...

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The Greed of Colonialism
Hochschild shows King Leopold’s greed when he sent the explorer Sir Henry Morton Stanley to collect signatures from the tribal leaders handing over their land to him, by taking advantage of their ignorance. They did not consider that the people living in Africa had their way of life and already had their own forms of government. The European colonizers did not consider the misery and pain they would be putting Africans through with their plans to take over their land. They considered Africa empty and the inhabitants primitive and uncivilized. This was not ...

The book, "Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different" of 2006, is an essay collection, authored by the award-winning Gordon Wood from Brown University. He gives thoughtful discussions about the Founders and talks about their backgrounds, achievements, and even thoughts. Wood succeeds in supporting his argument that the Founders used their good characters in leadership and tells us why it has been hard for subsequent leaders to imitate which is “the growth of egalitarian democracy” (Wood, 29). “Why don’t we have such leaders today?” he asks (Wood, 4). Wood is bewildered by the fact that an equal society ...