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• catalog abstract "For King and Country is a portrait of an ordinary young man enmeshed in extraordinary events: the young George Washington caught up, and striving to excel, amid the bitter rivalry between the French and British for control of the American colonial frontier in the mid-eighteenth century. Drawing heavily on Washington's own diaries, letters, and dispatches, the author follows the future president's remarkable rise from a callow young man with no inheritance, no trade, and few prospects to the respected commander-in-chief of the military forces of British America's foremost colony. The book reveals that this progress was not preordained by Washington's steadily growing qualities of leadership, courage, and devotion to liberty and justice but also involved conniving, conspiracy, fawning on superiors, badmouthing subordinates, covering up disastrous mistakes, and the occasional outright lie. The author also details the things Washington should have known but did not - about the frontier, the Indian traders, the French, and especially the Native Americans who were essential to his purposes. Previous biographies of Washington have focused primarily on his revolutionary and presidential years and have glossed over the contradictions and shortcomings of Washington's youth, tending to present him as a flawless paragon practically from birth. For King and Country shows clearly and in unprecedented detail that Washington struggled constantly, as all men do, with his own limitations and flaws. The greatness he achieved in later life shines all the brighter when we learn that in his early years he consistently failed to achieve it.".
• catalog contributor b4041033.
• catalog coverage "Virginia History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.".
• catalog coverage "Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.".
• catalog created "c1993.".
• catalog date "1993".
• catalog date "c1993.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "c1993.".
• catalog description "Drawing heavily on Washington's own diaries, letters, and dispatches, the author follows the future president's remarkable rise from a callow young man with no inheritance, no trade, and few prospects to the respected commander-in-chief of the military forces of British America's foremost colony. The book reveals that this progress was not preordained by Washington's steadily growing qualities of leadership, courage, and devotion to liberty and justice but also involved conniving, conspiracy, fawning on superiors, badmouthing subordinates, covering up disastrous mistakes, and the occasional outright lie. The author also details the things Washington should have known but did not - about the frontier, the Indian traders, the French, and especially the Native Americans who were essential to his purposes.".
• catalog description "For King and Country is a portrait of an ordinary young man enmeshed in extraordinary events: the young George Washington caught up, and striving to excel, amid the bitter rivalry between the French and British for control of the American colonial frontier in the mid-eighteenth century.".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-281) and index.".
• catalog description "Previous biographies of Washington have focused primarily on his revolutionary and presidential years and have glossed over the contradictions and shortcomings of Washington's youth, tending to present him as a flawless paragon practically from birth. For King and Country shows clearly and in unprecedented detail that Washington struggled constantly, as all men do, with his own limitations and flaws. The greatness he achieved in later life shines all the brighter when we learn that in his early years he consistently failed to achieve it.".
• catalog description "pt. I. Knowledge. Ch. 1. The Adolescent. Ch. 2. The Adjutant -- pt. II. Ignorance. Ch. 3. The Traders. Ch. 4. The Tribes. Ch. 5. The French -- pt. III. Action. Ch. 6. Contact. Ch. 7. Command. Ch. 8. First Blood. Ch. 9. Braddock's Road. Ch. 10. Massacre. Ch. 11. The Outrages. Ch. 12. Indian Summers. Ch. 13. Forbes's Road. Ch. 14. Ashes of Victory.".
• catalog extent "xvii, 296 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "For king and country.".
• catalog identifier "0060167777 :".
• catalog isFormatOf "For king and country.".
• catalog issued "1993".
• catalog issued "c1993.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : HarperCollins,".
• catalog relation "For king and country.".
• catalog spatial "United States".
• catalog spatial "Virginia History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.".
• catalog spatial "Virginia History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.".
• catalog subject "973.4/1/092 B 20".
• catalog subject "E312.2 .L48 1993".
• catalog subject "Generals United States Biography.".
• catalog subject "Presidents United States Biography.".
• catalog subject "Washington, George, 1732-1799 Childhood and youth.".
• catalog tableOfContents "pt. I. Knowledge. Ch. 1. The Adolescent. Ch. 2. The Adjutant -- pt. II. Ignorance. Ch. 3. The Traders. Ch. 4. The Tribes. Ch. 5. The French -- pt. III. Action. Ch. 6. Contact. Ch. 7. Command. Ch. 8. First Blood. Ch. 9. Braddock's Road. Ch. 10. Massacre. Ch. 11. The Outrages. Ch. 12. Indian Summers. Ch. 13. Forbes's Road. Ch. 14. Ashes of Victory.".
• catalog title "For king and country : the maturing of George Washington, 1748-1760 / Thomas A. Lewis.".
• catalog type "text".