Title: Patriarch
First published: 1993
Description: Repeatedly during his eight years as president, George Washington saved the infant republic from the factionalism and the involvement in foreign wars that threatened its existence. He skillfully moderated the feuds among his cabinet -- especially those between Hamilton and Jefferson -- and achieved his own political ends by seeming to be above politics. His actions and character defined the very nature of the presidency and, even more than the Constitution itself, made the new American government work. Better than any biographer before him, Richard Norton Smith gives us the "living" Washington, a working politician beset by crises, a masterly manager of men and events, anything but the time-worn marble monument. - Back cover.
Subjects: Politics and government, Presidents, Biography, Washington, George, 1732-1799, United states, politics and government, 1783-1809
Places: United States
People: George Washington (1732-1799)
Time periods: 1789-1797
LC classification: E312.29 .S65 1993