Riding with George
Subtitle: sportsmanship & chivalry in the making of America's first president
By: Philip G. Smucker
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
ISBN-13: 9781613736050
Subjects: Social life and customs; Political culture; Sportsmanship; Presidents; History; Sports
Description: xviii, 362 pages : 24 cm
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Life, liberty, and the pursuit of the fox; title: Part I. Englishman in America. Passage into the woods ; Born on an empire's edge ; Mother, manners, and cockfights ; Blood sports in the Shenandoah ; A gentleman's code ; The sorrows of young George; title: Part II. War games and folly. Mission for a flawed hero ; Charms of war ; Brave to a fault ; Cavalier in love and war ; Hog wild in Winchester ; Part III. Gentleman sportsman. En garde! ; Minuets and other gentler conflicts ; Augustan man of manners ; In the garden with Martha ; Good masters and petty tyrants ; Gentleman rebel ; Bowling with George ; Part IV. Clever like a fox. The world is his stage ; Victory or death ; A fine fox chase ; Drama in the valley of death ; Two old-school chevaliers; title: Part V. Master of manners. Leading the Revolution in style ; Southern persuasions ; Fear and glory at the races ; L'Aristocrat meets la guillotine ; A Sportsman for all seasons.