华盛顿
1994-2
Little Brown & Co
Flexner/James
423
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After more than two decades, this dramatic and concise single-volume distillation of James Thomas Flexner's definitive four-volume biography George Washington, which received a Pulitzer Prize citation and a National Book Award for the fourth volume,has itself become an American classic. Now in a new trade paper-back edition, this masterful work explores the Father of Our Country -- sometimes an unpopular hero, a man of great contra-dictions, but always a towering historical figurel who remains, as Flexner writes in these pages, "a fallible human being made of flesh and blood and spirit -- not a statue of marble and wood...a great and good man." The author unflinchingly paints a por-trait of Washington: slave owner, brave leader, man of passion, reluctant politician, and fierce general. His complex character and career are neither glorified nor vilified here; rather, Flexnersets up a brilliant counterpoint between Washington's public and private lives and gives us a challenging look at the man who has become as much a national symbol as the American flag.
Introduction1.A Powerful Apprenticeship (1732-1753)2.A Clumsy Entrance on the World Stage (1753-1754)3.Love and Massacre (i754-i755)4.Desperation and Disillusionment (i 755-i 759)5.George Washington's First War ( 1753-I 759)6.A Virginia Businessman ( 1759-1775)7.Washington in His Landscapes ( 1759-1775)8.A New Call to Arms (1765-1775)9.A Virginian in Yankee-Land (1775)10.An Early Triumph (1775-i776)11.The Continental Army on Trial (1776)12.Depths (1776-1777)13.Heights (1777)14.The Loss of Philadelphia (1777)15.The Conway Cabal ( 1777-1778)16.The Road Turns Upward (1778)17.Hope Abroad and Bankruptcy at Home (1778-1779)18.Enter a French Army (1779-1780)19.Treason (1775-1780)20.Virginia Endangered (1780-1781)21.Yorktown (1781)22.A Gulf of Civil Horror (I781-1783)23.Goodbye to War (1775-1783)24.Pleasures at Home (1783-1787)25.Canals and Conventions (1783-1787)26.The Constitution of the United States (1787-1788)27.Hysteria and Responsibility (1788)28.A Second Constitutional Convention (1789)29.The Social Man (1789)30.Infighting Foreshadowed (1790)3I.The Great Schism Opens (1790-1792)32.Europeans and Indians (1783-1792)33.Desire to Escape (1791-1792)34.No Exit (1790-1793)35.Bad Omens (1792-1793)36.Earthquake Faults (1793 and thereafter)37.A French Bombshell (1793)38.Trouble All Around (1793)39.A Tragic Departure (1793)4o.Opposite Hands Across the Ocean (1794)4I.The Whiskey Rebellion (179O-1794)42.The Democratic Societies (1794)43.A Disastrous Document (1795)44.Tragedy with a Friend (1795)45.Downhill (1795-1796)46.Washington's Farewell Address (1796)47.The End of the Presidency (1796-1797)48.Home Again (1797-1799)49.Mental Confusion (1797-1798)50.Politics at Sunset (1798-1799)51.Washington and Slavery (1732-1799)52.Death of a Hero (1799)AcknowledgmentsBibliographyIndex
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