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George Washington's America : A Biography Through His Maps by Barnet Schecter (2010, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherWalker & Company
ISBN-100802717489
ISBN-139780802717481
eBay Product ID (ePID)84307820
Product Key Features
Book TitleGeorge Washington's America : a Biography Through His Maps
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
TopicUnited States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), General, Presidents & Heads of State, United States / General, Military
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorBarnet Schecter
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight87.8 Oz
Item Length13.2 in
Item Width10.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-001883
ReviewsSchecter's riveting narrative places the violence, dramatized by Martin Scorcese's Gangs of New York, in a national context, as a microcosm of forces that deferred integration for a century., Crunching historical time into familiar space, Schecter uses New York as a 'fixed point, a compass for orienting oneself amid the many disparate theaters and battles of the long, complex war.' Marching us through battle where today we bank and shop, learn and live, reinforces the lessons that our freedoms had to be earned, and were not guaranteed., Barnet Schecter tells the extraordinary story of how Central Park and Fifth Avenue were battlefields in the struggle for American independence.
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal973.4/1092
SynopsisA unique biography of George Washington inspired by the maps heused throughout his life- offering new insight into the historic events of his era., From his teens until his death, the maps George Washington drew and purchased were always central to his work. After his death, many of the most important maps he had acquired were bound into an atlas. The atlas remained in his family for almost a century before it was sold and eventually ended up at Yale University's Sterling Memorial Library. Inspired by these remarkable maps, historian Barnet Schecter has crafted a unique portrait of our first Founding Father, placing the reader at the scenes of his early career as a surveyor, his dramatic exploits in the French and Indian War (his altercation with the French is credited as the war's spark), his struggles throughout the American Revolution as he outmaneuvered the far more powerful British army, his diplomacy as president, and his shaping of the new republic. Beautifully illustrated in color, with twenty-four of the full atlas maps, dozens more detail views from those maps, and numerous additional maps (some drawn by Washington himself), portraits, and other images-and produced in an elegant large format- George Washington's America allows readers to visualize history through Washington's eyes, and sheds fresh light on the man and his times.
LC Classification NumberE312.S298 2010
