George Washington: Anguish and Farewell 1793-1799 - Volume IV

James Thomas Flexner
Little Brown and Company
9780316286022
0-316-28602-8

George Washington: Anguish and Farewell is the fourth and final volume of one of the most distinguished American biographies of our generation. Covering the tumultuous years of Washington's second term.

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as President, his retirement, and his death, the book reveals the almost shattering pressures under which Washington struggled to maintain America's unity during its first great peacetime testing as an independent nation.