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Washington: A Life
by Chernow, Ron
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/Acceptable
- ISBN 10
- 1594202664
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202667
- Seller
-
Portland, Oregon, United States
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About This Item
Penguin Press, 2010-10-05. Hardcover. Good/Acceptable. 6x2x10. Hardbound book in good condition, clean with shelfwear to bottom edge of boards. Heavy wear to surfaces and edges of dust jacket. DJ in mylar.
Synopsis
Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president of the United States. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one volume biography of George Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his adventurous early years, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president. In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow shatters forever the stereotype of George Washington as a stolid, unemotional figure and brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods. “Truly magnificent… [a] well-researched, well-written and absolutely definitive biography” –Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal “Superb… the best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington ever written.” –Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books “A truly gripping biography of George Washington... I can’t recommend it highly enough—as history, as epic, and, not least, as entertainment. It’s as luxuriantly pleasurable as one of those great big sprawling, sweeping Victorian novels.” –Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
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Details
- Bookseller
- Chaparral Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- CHAPcherWASH
- Title
- Washington: A Life
- Author
- Chernow, Ron
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- Acceptable
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 1594202664
- ISBN 13
- 9781594202667
- Publisher
- Penguin Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2010-10-05
- Size
- 6x2x10
- X weight
- 49 oz
Terms of Sale
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About the Seller
Chaparral Books
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Portland, Oregon
About Chaparral Books
Chaparral Books is located across from Elephant's Deli on S Corbett Avenue in Portland. We have a well rounded collection of subjects, including an extensive core collection in Western Americana and Native American Literature including Western Writers.
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- Shelfwear
- Minor wear resulting from a book being place on, and taken from a bookshelf, especially along the bottom edge.
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
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