Life of Washington, Volume 1
Author: first_name: John James
last_name: Marshall
Language: English
Year: 1926

If it be true that it takes a great man to interpret the life of a great man then Bushrod Washington made no mistake in the selection of a biographer.  For Marshall,  under the influence of Washington, came to be nearly as great a man as the character  whose life and achievement held his deepest thought for nearly a quarter of a century.  . . . Marshall's sympathetic understanding of his subject, his firsthand knowledge of events with his remarkable powers of expression qualified him to produce