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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Epigraph
Timeline
Preface: You Never Forget Your First—But You Do Misremember Him
Introduction: The Thigh Men of Dad History
Part I: Reluctant Rebel
Chapter 1: His Mother’s Son
Chapter 2: “Pleases My Taste”
Chapter 3: “The World on Fire”
Chapter 4: “Blow Out My Brains”
Chapter 5: The Widow Custis
Chapter 6: “I Cannot Speak Plainer”
Chapter 7: “What Manner of Man I Am”
Chapter 8: “The Shackles of Slavery”
Part II: General George Washington’s American Revolution—Off the Battlefield
Chapter 9: Hardball with the Howe Brothers
Chapter 10: The Court of Public Opinion
Chapter 11: George Washington, Agent 711
Chapter 12: Eight Years Away
Chapter 13: “From Whence No Traveller Returns”
Part III: Mr. President
Chapter 14: Unretirement
Chapter 15: The Presidency; or, “The Place of His Execution”
Chapter 16: Infant Nation
Chapter 17: “Political Suicide”
Chapter 18: Farewell to “Cunning, Ambitious, and Unprincipled Men”
Part IV: “I Die Hard”
Chapter 19: Final Retirement
Chapter 20: “’Tis Well”
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index
About the Author
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