George Washington’s America: A Biography Through His Maps

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From his teens until his death, the maps George Washington drew and purchased were at all times central to his work. After his death, a few of the most important maps he had acquired were bound into an atlas. The atlas remained in his circle of relatives for nearly a century before it was once sold and in the end ended up at Yale University’s Sterling Memorial Library.
Inspired by these remarkable maps, historian Barnet Schecter has crafted a unique portrait of our first Founding Father, placing the reader at the scenes of his early career as a surveyor, his dramatic exploits in the French and Indian War (his altercation with the French is credited as the war’s spark), his struggles all through the American Revolution as he outmaneuvered the far more powerful British army, his diplomacy as president, and his shaping of the new republic. Beautifully illustrated in color, with twenty-four of the full atlas maps, dozens more detail views from those maps, and a lot of additional maps (some drawn by Washington himself), portraits, and other images-and produced in an elegant large format-George Washington’s America allows readers to visualize history through Washington’s eyes, and sheds fresh light at the man and his times.

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