Washington, Dr. Paul Vickery
Washington, Dr. Paul Vickery
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Washington
A Legacy of Leadership

Author: Dr. Paul Vickery, Stephen Mansfield

Series: Generals

Narrator: Chad Escue

Unabridged: 6 hr 22 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Thomas Nelson

Published: 05/09/2023

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

His name is carved in granite, his likeness cast in bronze, his legend as large as the role he played as America's first president. But before he was a commander-in-chief, George Washington was a general in a revolution that would decide the future of the people and land he called his own. If victorious, he would gain immortality. If defeated, he would find his neck in a hangman's noose.Washington knew the sting of defeat—at Brandywine, at Germantown—yet this unwavering leadership and his vision for a new and independent nation emboldened an army prepared to fight barefoot if necessary to win that independence. Wrote an officer after the Battle of Princeton:  "I saw him brave all the dangers of the field and his important life hanging as it were by a single hair with a thousand deaths flying around him."Among America's pantheon of Founding Fathers, one man to this day stands out.  Author Paul Vickery tracks the unlikely rise of Washington, a man whose stature in command of a young army became prelude to a presidency. As Vickery writes, "He learned to become the father of our country by first being the father of our military."Accompanying images are included in the audiobook companion PDF download.

About Dr. Paul Vickery

Paul Vickery is a tenured professor at Oral Roberts University, where he teaches U.S. military history.

About Stephen Mansfield

Stephen Mansfield is the New York Times bestselling author of Lincoln's Battle with God, The Faith of Barack Obama, Pope Benedict XVI, Searching for God and Guinness, and Never Give In: The Extraordinary Character of Winston Churchill. He lives in Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Beverly.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Paul

Washington looms over the life of the nation that he did so much to found. As general, as constitutionalist, as president, he set the tone and the standard for all others in American life to follow. Indeed, without George Washington it is impossible to imagine the United States of America growing, t......more

Goodreads review by R.J.

400 pages. 52 chapters. 8 pages per chapter, roughly. The structure of Washington: The Indispensable Man was perfect for this reader. I read one or two chapters per sitting and never strayed from the path into a forest of detail. I have longed to read about Washington for several years, but not got ro......more

Goodreads review by Robert A.

A classic Presidential biography, it brings George Washington to life. The author takes Washington off his marble pedestal wand puts on a horse, racing through a storm of bullets during the French and Indian War. And so the journey begins. This book explains why Washington was great, glorious and, a......more

Goodreads review by Mary JL

James Thomas Flexner wrote a very detailed 4 volume biography of Washington. Then, I beleive at a publishers request, he took the core parts of the four volumes and published a one volume biography. It is very, very good. First, one long volume of almost 400 words is still more accessible to the gene......more

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