On 2003-09-26 JOHN GODFREY, Milwaukee ,WI USA wrote: Washington. This is a pretty good one. It´s value to me was Washington as a colonial officer under British generals during the French-Indian War. It is essential as this was the making of the man & frames everything that comes after.
A stupid blunder, of so many by the British after defeating the French was the denial of Washington a generalship in the regular British military establishment. It was the one thing that he wanted or ever would want more in his whole life. Mr. Alden explains why Washington or any colonial could not hope for a career in the regular army. It chilled me to think of the course of American history & world history if Washington had remained a loyal British subject. Our history without Washington is hard to imagine. There was no one even close to his stature in America. So he did become a general after all. The rest of the book is well done. Good reading for someone not too familiar with the first president, with a little revolutionary era history thrown in.. And summed up by saying Lots of biographies out there on General & President. Currently George Washington: A Biography has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Grover Gardner claimed Ambitious in scope, Alden´s sweeping account chronicles the ideas, events and personalities that surrounded Washington, from his younger years in Virginia through his Presidency and famed farewell address. 8 cassettes.
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