The Making of the President, 1789: The Unauthorized Campaign Biography - Hardcover

Kitman, Marvin

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0060159812 ISBN 13: 9780060159818

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1989

Synopsis

A humorous look at Washington's political campaign

About this title

From Publishers Weekly:

A biography of George Washington like none other, this revealing portrait brings the sanctified first president down to human scale. Iconoclast Kitman ( George Washington's Expense Account ) portrays him as an incompetent war general, a wheeler-dealer, a land-grabber, "an intimate of every major financial crook and market manipulator." We are told that Prefident Washington (to use the colonial typography) autocratically opposed a multi-party system, and that his elevation from Virginia planter to leader was engineered by a Mount Vernon political machine. Kitman piles on whimsy and clever anachronisms in an effort to lighten the strong populist thrust of his portrayal. There is also much about Washington's false modesty, his drinking habits, his womanizing and his extravagant personal spending even when in debt.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0060159812
• ISBN 13: 9780060159818
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 358