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| | Amazon.ca: Books: His Excellency: George Washington (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | Today, as Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph J. Ellis says in this crackling biography, Americans see their first president on dollar bills, quarters, and Mount Rushmore, but only as "an icon--distant, cold, intimidating." In truth, Washington was a deeply emotional man, but one who prized and practiced self-control (an attribute reinforced during his years on the battlefield). |
 | | Based on Washington's personal letters and papers, His Excellency is smart and accessible (not to mention relatively brief, in comparison to other encyclopedic presidential tomes)--Ellis's short, succinct sentences speak volumes, allowing readers to glimpse the man behind the myth. |
 | | 1753: As an emissary to Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie, he travels to the Ohio River valley to confront French forces--the first of a series of encounters that would lead to the French and Indian War. |
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