Jefferson: A Revealing BiographyAmerican Heritage Publishing Company : book trade distribution by McGraw-Hill, 1976 - Biography & Autobiography - 310 pages |
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Page 103
... Washington and Jefferson . When one compares Washington's eight - year labor as comman- der in chief of the Continental armies under the most trying and arduous conditions imaginable with Jefferson's brief stint in composing the ...
... Washington and Jefferson . When one compares Washington's eight - year labor as comman- der in chief of the Continental armies under the most trying and arduous conditions imaginable with Jefferson's brief stint in composing the ...
Page 239
... Washington's administration . Emboldened by this adulation , Genêt became imperious and arrogant , demanding to be allowed to address Congress and threatening to appeal to the American people over the head of Washington , who was cool ...
... Washington's administration . Emboldened by this adulation , Genêt became imperious and arrogant , demanding to be allowed to address Congress and threatening to appeal to the American people over the head of Washington , who was cool ...
Page 289
... Washington or Adams . He also began the preoccupation with " presidential style " -the idea that each President has to " come across " as a particular , sharply and dramatically conceived individual — an idea that was to become so ...
... Washington or Adams . He also began the preoccupation with " presidential style " -the idea that each President has to " come across " as a particular , sharply and dramatically conceived individual — an idea that was to become so ...
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