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Title: An Imperfect God
Subtitle: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
Author: Henry Wiencek
Narrator: Rick Adamson
Format: Abridged
Length: 7 hrs and 20 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-21-03
Publisher: Macmillan Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 45 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Political Figures
Publisher's Summary:
Wiencek's revelatory narrative, based on a meticulous examination of private papers, court records, and the voluminous Washington archives, documents for the first time the moral transformation culminating in Washington's determination to emancipate his slaves. He acted too late to keep the new republic from perpetuating slavery, but his repentance was genuine. And it was perhaps related to the possibility, as the oral history of Mount Vernon's slave descendants has long asserted, that a slave named West Ford was the son of George and a woman named Venus.
In this superb, nuanced portrait we see George Washington hi full both as a man of his time and a man ahead of his time.
Critic Reviews:
"The process of fathoming Washington's moral evolution is not a simple one...[Wiencek] rises to the challenge." (The New York Times) "This work of stylish scholarship and genealogical investigation makes Washington an even greater and more human figure than he has seemed before." (Publishers Weekly) "This gripping story of moral reform adds greatly to our understanding of this most remote of Founders." (The Wall Street Journal)
