This is an introduction to Washington before he was Washington: a young soldier champing at the bit for a commission in the British army, frustrated by his position as a minor Virginia aristocrat. Fueled by ego, Washington led a disastrous expedition in the Seven Years War, but then the commander grew up. We witness George Washington take up politics and join Virginias colonial governing body, the House of Burgesses, where he became ever more attuned to the injustices of life under the British Empire and the paranoid, revolutionary atmosphere of the colonies. When war seemed inevitable, he was the right manthe only manto lead the nascent American army.Author:Robert L. OConnell. Hardcover;400 pages.

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