Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy Philbrick Nathaniel
Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy Philbrick Nathaniel Does George Washington still matter? Travels with George marks a new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history…
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Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy Philbrick Nathaniel
Does George Washington still matter? Travels with George marks a new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into a single narrative.When George Washington became president in 1789, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington's unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new president through all thirteen former colonies, which were now an unsure nation.
Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing--Americans.In the fall of 2018, Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called the infant woody country to see for himself what America had