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The author of seven highly acclaimed books, Joseph J. Ellis

has crafted a landmark biography that brings to life in all his

complexity the most important and perhaps least understood figure

in American history, George Washington. With his careful attention

to detail and his lyrical prose, Ellis has set a new standard for

biography.

Drawing from the newly catalogued Washington papers at the

University of Virginia, Joseph Ellis paints a full portrait of

George Washington’s life and career–from his military years through

his two terms as president. Ellis illuminates the difficulties the

first executive confronted as he worked to keep the emerging

country united in the face of adversarial factions. He richly

details Washington’s private life and illustrates the ways in which

it influenced his public persona. Through Ellis’s artful narration,

we look inside Washington’s marriage and his subsequent entrance

into the upper echelons of Virginia’s plantation society. We come

to understand that it was by managing his own large debts to

British merchants that he experienced firsthand the imperiousness

of the British Empire. And we watch the evolution of his attitude

toward slavery, which led to his emancipating his own slaves in his

will. Throughout, Ellis peels back the layers of myth and uncovers

for us Washington in the context of eighteenth-century America,

allowing us to comprehend the magnitude of his accomplishments and

the character of his spirit and mind.

When Washington died in 1799, Ellis tells us, he was eulogized as

“first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Since then, however, his

image has been chisled onto Mount Rushmore and printed on the

dollar bill. He is on our landscape and in our wallets but not,

Ellis argues, in our hearts. Ellis strips away the ivy and legend

that have grown up over the Washington statue and recovers the

flesh-and-blood man in all his passionate and fully human

prowess.

In the pantheon of our republic’s founders, there were many

outstanding individuals. And yet each of them–Franklin, Hamilton,

Adams, Jefferson, and Madison– acknowledged Washington to be his

superior, the only indispensable figure, the one and only “His

Excellency.” Both physically and politically, Washington towered

over his peers for reasons this book elucidates. His

Excellency is a full, glorious, and multifaceted portrait of

the man behind our country’s genesis, sure to become the

authoritative biography of George Washington for many

decades.

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Joseph Ellis is the Pulitzer Prize_winning author of Founding

Brothers. His portrait of Thomas Jefferson, American

Sphinx, won the National Book Award. He lives in Amherst,

Massachusetts, with his wife, Ellen, and their youngest son,

Alex.

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As commander of the Continental army, George Washington united

the American colonies, defeated the British army, and became the

world's most famous man. But how much do Americans really know

about their first president? Today, as Pulitzer Prize-winner Joseph

J. Ellis says in this crackling biography, Americans see their

first president on dollar bills, quarters, and Mount Rushmore, but

only as "an icon--distant, cold, intimidating." In truth,

Washington was a deeply emotional man, but one who prized and

practiced self-control (an attribute reinforced during his years on

the battlefield).

Washington first gained recognition as a 21-year-old emissary

for the governor of Virginia, braving savage conditions to confront

encroaching French forces. As the de facto leader of the American

Revolution, he not only won the country's independence, but helped

shape its political personality and "topple the monarchical and

aristocratic dynasties of the Old World." When the Congress

unanimously elected him president, Washington accepted reluctantly,

driven by his belief that the union's very viability depended on a

powerful central government. In fact, keeping the country together

in the face of regional allegiances and the rise of political

parties may be his greatest presidential achievement.

Based on Washington's personal letters and papers, His

Excellency is smart and accessible--not to mention relatively

brief, in comparison to other encyclopedic presidential tomes.

Ellis's short, succinct sentences speak volumes, allowing readers

to glimpse the man behind the myth. --Andy Boynton

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The author of seven highly acclaimed books, Joseph J. Ellis has crafted a landmark biography that brings to life in all his complexity the most important and perhaps least understood figure in American history, George Washington. With his careful attention to detail and his lyrical prose, Ellis has set a new standard for biography.

Drawing from the newly catalogued Washington papers at the University of Virginia, Joseph Ellis paints a full portrait of George Washington’s life and career–from his military years through his two terms as president. Ellis illuminates the difficulties the first executive confronted as he worked to keep the emerging country united in the face of adversarial factions. He richly details Washington’s private life and illustrates the ways in which it influenced his public persona. Through Ellis’s artful narration, we look inside Washington’s marriage and his subsequent entrance into the upper echelons of Virginia’s plantation society. We come to understand that it was by managing his own large debts to British merchants that he experienced firsthand the imperiousness of the British Empire. And we watch the evolution of his attitude toward slavery, which led to his emancipating his own slaves in his will. Throughout, Ellis peels back the layers of myth and uncovers for us Washington in the context of eighteenth-century America, allowing us to comprehend the magnitude of his accomplishments and the character of his spirit and mind.

When Washington died in 1799, Ellis tells us, he was eulogized as “first in the hearts of his countrymen.” Since then, however, his image has been chisled onto Mount Rushmore and printed on the dollar bill. He is on our landscape and in our wallets but not, Ellis argues, in our hearts. Ellis strips away the ivy and legend that have grown up over the Washington statue and recovers the flesh-and-blood man in all his passionate and fully human prowess.

In the pantheon of our republic’s founders, there were many outstanding individuals. And yet each of them–Franklin, Hamilton, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison– acknowledged Washington to be his superior, the only indispensable figure, the one and only “His Excellency.” Both physically and politically, Washington towered over his peers for reasons this book elucidates. His Excellency is a full, glorious, and multifaceted portrait of the man behind our country’s genesis, sure to become the authoritative biography of George Washington for many decades.