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Star rating for George Washington's rules of civility & decent behaviour in company and conversation
Publisher:
Mount Vernon Ladies' Association
Pub. Date:
1989
Language:
English
Average Rating:
5 stars
Description:
'George Washington's Rules of Civility' is a short list of 110 principles or maxims by which, supposedly, proper decent people must abide. While some of these maxims may seem dated others are still quite apt for today. A quick read, 'George Washington's Rules of Civility' is an insightful look at the manners and customs of an age gone by.
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Star rating for Writings
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Publisher:
Library of America :
Pub. Date:
[1997]
Language:
English
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Star rating for Washington on courage
Publisher:
Skyhorse Pub
Pub. Date:
[2012]
Language:
English
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Star rating for This glorious struggle
Publisher:
Smithsonian Books :
Pub. Date:
[2007]
Language:
English
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Star rating for George Washington in the American Revolution, 1775-1783
Publisher:
Little, Brown
Pub. Date:
[1968]
Language:
English
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Star rating for Fears of a setting sun
Publisher:
Princeton University Press
Language:
English
Description:
Whatever sense of hope the Founder Fathers may have felt at the new government's birth, almost none of them carried that optimism to their graves. Franklin survived to see the Constitution in action for only a single year, but most of the founders who lived into the nineteenth century came to feel deep anxiety, disappointment, and even despair about the government and the nation that they had helped to create. Indeed, by the end of their lives many...

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