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| | 'He was a man of action' | csmonitor.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | It's been said many times before, but, well, George Washington was a really great man. He was so great, he actually lived up to his highest ideals as they unfolded to him. |
 | | Instead, he divides the film into sections such as "politics" and "constancy," examining Washington's skill as a general, a politician, a farmer, a self-taught scholar, a man of conscience and principle, and a hero in his own time. |
 | | Perhaps the greatest aspect of Washington's character was that he "was a man of action who absorbed the best ideas of his day and then made them real and lived up to them," Brookhiser says. |
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