No comments about Antonio Lopez De Santa Anna (Los Grandes).

1 comments about George Washington (American Statesman).

1. Anyone that needed reminding of the romanticism that this county was founded with should read Henry Cabot Lodge's biography of George Washington.

1 comments about For King and Country: The Maturing of George Washington, 1748-1760.

1. I would really enjoy meeting Thomas Lewis, and talking historical facts and old Washington legends with him.

   There is nothing flashy or trashy about For King And Country. It is a very well researched and very connected account of young Washington between 1748 and 1760.

   I can't help, but, wonder if Thomas Lewis is a descendent of Washington's nephew Lawrence Lewis. There is that much cool headed depth of feeling evident in For King and Country.

   We tend to forget that Washington had to personally put up with hundreds of uniquely American cantankerous characters during his youth. Thomas Lewis gives a little flavor to that part of the formation of young Washington's character. When Lewis contrasts Washington's "uncommon ambition" to be recognized by the British, and also recognized by those Virginians with British pretensions real or affected; Lewis firmly grasps Washington's American reality.

   I do sincerely hope that Thomas Lewis writes of Geo Washington again.

No comments about George Washington in his own words.

2 comments about Thomas Jefferson (The American Statesmen Series).

1. yeah this is an interesting, and staunchly Anti-Jeffersonian Biography from 1883. His vantage point makes this book a pretty groovy read, though maybe not the best for facts



2. The narrative style of this work by famous founders' biographer John Morse is arrogant, flippant and frequently exaggerated. It carries the tone of the amateur Yankee historian on high, passing judgment on this Southern statesman who was neither from Boston nor a Harvard graduate. Perhaps considered penetrating for its day, it really represents nothing more than opinion today. The research is so thin that one must conclude that Morse wrote the entire manuscript essentially from memory, with little reference to the primary and secondary sources we expect of historians now. If it weren't for the fact that Morse wrote this piece 110 years ago, I'd have rated it only one star.

No comments about White House Ladies: Fascinating Tales and Colorful Curiosities.

No comments about The True Abraham Lincoln.

No comments about The Haunted Philosophe: James Madison, Republicanism, and Slavery.

No comments about John F. Kennedy (Great American Presidents).

No comments about Benjamin Harrison: Centennial President (First Men America's Presidents Series).