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Title: George Washington
Subtitle: First in War First in Peace
Author: James A Crutchfield
Narrator: Rusty Nelson
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 32 mins
Language: English
Release date: 10-27-08
Publisher: Books in Motion
Ratings: 3 of 5 out of 2 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Political Figures

Publisher's Summary:
Between 1753, when he was commissioned as a major of Virginia militia, and 1775, when the second Continental Congress named him Commander-in-Chief of all colonial military forces, George Washington rose from anonymity as a minor landowner and surveyor to become America's first national hero. With little military training he led the thirteen fledgling colonies through six years of grueling war against formidable British forces, steered the proceedings of the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, and served two terms as the first president of the United States. His accomplishments were so stunning and he was so revered that by the end of the war some of his generals urged him to install himself as king, an idea he looked upon with "abhorrence," calling the very thought "painful." Nor would he consider standing for a third term as president.
©1980 James A Crutchfield (P)2006 Books in Motion