You never forget your first: a biography of George Washington

His Mother's Son

"Pleases My Taste"

"The World on Fire"

"Blow out my brains"

The Widow Custis

"I Cannot Speak Plainer"

"What Manner of Man I Am"

"The Shackles of Slavery"

Hardball with the Howe Brothers

The Court of Public Opinion

George Washington, Agent

Eight Years Away

"From Whence No Traveller Returns"

Unretirement

The Presidency; or, "The Place of His Execution"

Infant Nation

"Political Suicide"

Farewell to "Cunning, Ambitious, and Unprincipled Men"

Final Retirement

" 'Tis Well".

You never forget your first: but you do misremember him

Introduction: The thigh men of Dad history

part 1. Reluctant rebel. His mother's son

"Pleases my taste"

"The world on fire"

"Blow out my brains"

The Widow Custis

"I cannot speak plainer"

"What manner of man I am"

"The shackles of slavery"

part 2. General George Washington's American Revolution: off the battlefied. Hardball with the Howe brothers

The court of public opinion

George Washington, Agent 711

Eight years away

"From whence no traveller returns"

part 3. Mr. President. Unretirement

The Presidency; or, "The place of his execution"

Infant nation

"Political suicide"

Farewell to "cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men"

part 5. "I die hard." Final Retirement

" 'Tis well"

Epilogue.