George Washington's  Secret Six
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Excellent read. Well researched and informative. It made my flight go by very fast. Videos to Brian Kilmeade for telling the story of these patriots.
2561742
The role his spies played at the surrender at Yorktown was incredible. General Washington knew he had Cornwallis trapped and the spies had told him the British reinforcements were two weeks out to sea. So he gathered the American army and the nearby militias and called for immediate surrender. The war was over.
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I wonder why the free verson of this book appears below the ones for $3... in any case this is a wonderful read.  Did you know George Washington was a millionaire be the time he was twenty?  Tragic reasons behind that.  How many times do you think George Washington cheated death? Plenty.  An excellent story of an amazing man. Get it now!
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Josiah Penn is an aide-de-camp for General George Washington during the Revolutionary War.  The General had 32 aids but Josiah was the only one that was with him for the entire war.  Josiah is a compilation of 25 aids (and secretaries) that served the General.  One is able to indeed gain knowledge of Washington that we never read before.

The book shows the sense of duty and the power of General Washington's personality....including leaving some 'action' correspondence from Congress on the bottom of his stack.  This in itself was out of character for the General as he was a real stickler for keeping correspondence up to date.  Everything he did was done with an eye on history.

He relied heavily on a book titled 'Rules of Civility' which was written by a French priest.  110 rules were in this book and covered such topics as speech, table manners, and conduct.  General Washington had this book by his side and frequently read it.

The foreword set the stage for a possible mutiny.  Troops had not been paid (or were underpaid), food was scarce, and even their clothing was in shambles.  Meals sometimes consisted of stale bread, beef broth and burnt leaves.  Most had thought that the war would be a short one but as one realizes during war all sorts of things occur to keep the soldiers fighting.

There are indeed some interesting observations about General Washington that I had never read before.  The author allows the reader to see the General 'up close and personal' through the eyes of his favorite aid.  So favorite that he allowed Josiah to write his personal letters.  Also, learned about Martha Washington's family which was a bonus.

All in all, I found it to be an interesting read which went into great detail about the General's likes and dislikes.  The Newburgh conspiracy was also brand new to me.  One point of negativity concerned Josiah when he said numerous times 'about which I will tell you later'.  In a book of nearly 300 pages, I lost track of whether it was told later or not.  I also thought that several times during reading the story got 'bogged' down.  The pace returned, however, and I was rewarded with facts previously unknown to me.

Highly recommended.

Please note that this is my Kindle First selection for June 2017.  .

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This book continues to shed light on the importance that Washington placed on spies and the contributions they made to the success of the
Revolution. Most of the facts have been documented in other sources but it is fitting that we pay tribute to those men and women that risked everything to help our nation attain independence.
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This diary of George Washington Gift reveals many amazing details of his experiences at the newly-formed U.S. Naval Academy and aboard a sloop-of-war in the Pacific.  After fifteen-year-old Gift had spent a short while at the 1848 Academy, he was ordered onto the "St Mary's."  Gift wrote:  "He [officer in charge] did not seem to know that we were perfectly unadquainted with ship matters."  The boys soon learned that they were expected to buy their own food, water, and wood for their shipboard cookstove; in addition, they would sleep in hammocks and get flogged for their offenses.  Following the warship around Cape Horn to California, South America, and Hawaii lets the reader see the sights that the sailors saw--a wonderful experience.
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Why could George Washington not tell a lie?  This book gives you insight into the character of such an important figure in American history.  More than just the when and where, this books uncovers the how and why. As Americans, we should want to know more about the founding fathers.  This is a great reference book.  Well documented.
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A fast read of short very informative chapters on the Secret Societies plan for Americas and the worlds controlled directions and as the title states it's 2 books in one. Interesting behind the scene stories about our country and it's founders and some mysterious unnamed strangers involved as well. Some interesting points are as follows, they [secret societies],admire the Egyptians,Akhnaton to be exact and his plan for a world brotherhood,Greeks discovered America,Atlantis was formed by 10 benevolent kings,Greece had the 1st democracy 600 years before Christ,America was built for the New World Democracy,Human interest,policy and selfishness lead to war so you need Generals who are not sensitive for peace in other words order out of chaos,Plutarch said America was unexplored because Atlantis was destroyed so no one went west but before that the Egyptians and others were in the Great Lakes region, the Egyptians had huge ships that even had orchard groves on them,Solomen visited Egypt and said they had an underground river that had 2 columns that had the Laws to govern nations written on them not made by man,Solomen king of Israel wanted a temple built so he sent for Hiram Abiff a master of Dionysian Artificers and the exclusive right to build temples he also worshiped God under geometric symbolism,Columbus was a member of a Philosophers club and said the Earth is a globe,Mohammed destiny was guided by a unknown man in a black robe,Nostrodamus was a member of The Order of the Quest [so maybe he wasn't a seer, just a mason reading of a well laid future plan by secret societies],Sir Francis Bacon also was an Order of the Quest member any way the book goes on to talk about Quetzacoatl {the feathers serpent} who wore a white robe with red crusifixes on it and started a Democracy with the Mayans,Ben Franklin,Cabalism,our Presidents,European Spanish and German secret societies that settled America,here's an interesting fact,Ben Franklin wanted a wild Turkey to be the symbol of our country,Popul Vuh,James Pryse wrote The Book of the Azure Veil in it he states that Amaruca translates as America or The Land of The Plumed Serpent,secret societies believe that all Holy Priest are masculine and feminine endogenous for a spiritual union,German women formed a group called Wissahickon in the woods of Pennsylvania [witches?wiccas?]well you get the idea as we all know by now secret societies are a secret for their demonic World Revolutionary Movement,that said a very interesting read.
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If you want to know all about George Washington this book is a great place to start. It is well written and very informative.
3645830
Learning more of why and how George
Washington became such powerful and exemplary great president, one who established the guidelines for future presidents.
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This is an interesting overview of Washington's life, and the major elements that drove and defined it.

Washington was famous for his lack of ambition.  Indeed in his first inaugural address he begins "Among the vicissitudes incident to life, no event could have filled me with greater anxieties than that of which the notification was transmitted by your order, and received on the fourteenth day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years".  He didn't want, or didn't want to seem to want, the presidency, indeed he relinquished power first over the army, and then over the country as he refused the possibility of a third term.

Washington was not known or well-regarded for his military prowess.  He was a steady, adequate commander, easily overshadowed by the daring of Benedict Arnold or the experience and superior tactics of British commanders.  It is through his tenacity, and the strength of his allies (most particularly the French) that he emerged victorious.

As opposed to the Democratic-Republicans who wanted strong state governments that could throw the central government a bone in terms of militia or revenue if they were in the mood, Washington and the Federalists wanted the federal government to have the power of taxation and the power to raise and maintain an army.  He'd seen first hand, in the French and Indian war, and especially during the revolution, that a heavily decentralized government led to inefficiency, confusion, and almost cost America the war.  It did cost lives of men under his command.  He was driven in his commitment to the Federalist cause.  Sadly, the Federalist Party did not long survive.

This deals in more detail with his views on slavery than most books I've encountered, and there it particularly excels.

I received a copy in exchange for an honest review.
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I really enjoyed this book. As someone who has read a fair number of biographies of our founding fathers, I was very surprised how much new information is in here. A fun read!
1940510
This is an excellent book to read and share with a young person.  We need George Washington in our lives.
3609526
Palmers thesis is that Washingtons did not use a one-dimensional strategy throughout the Revolutionary War, as he is often portrayed as doing by recent historians of that war.  Palmer identifies four distinct phases of the war and he explains how Washington changed his strategy to confront each phase.  I found the book enlightening.  It changed my thinking about Washington as a general and it enriched my understanding of that war.
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Wiencek presents Washington as a closet abolitionist,a man who has grown to abhor slavery but is helpless to suppress it. This spiritual awakening is due to his experiences in the revolutionary war serving with African soldiers. I don't buy it. Why not just give the slaves a salary? Why house them in hovels and work them dusk to dawn?I enjoyed reading this book,it is well researched and brings to light many sad truths about the founding fathers. Washingtons' will  freeing his slaves upon the the death of Martha is Hitchcockian. She wisely told them that there was no need to wait.
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I discovered this mini-series after returning from visiting Mount Vernon and looking up George Washington related items on Amazon. I initially held off on my purchase until I could confirm that the earlier version glitches were resolved. I found that the scenes previous reviewers described as missing (1765 to 1775) are in the version I received. I also believe the original run times included commercials. My set Part I clocked in at 396 minutes and Part II at 197 minutes.
Now for the series itself. One of the best I've seen! Most video releases out there are documentaries about GW and not much in the way of a movie/series. I found this series very entertaining and informative. Both the ups and downs of his life are presented. Much of GW's life is captured here, but I found the parts about the Revolutionary War and his presidency the most fascinating. Barry Bostwick's portrayal was excellent. I thought he did a great job. I also found Patty Duke's portrayal of Mrs. GW very well done.
I highly recommend this set. A great story of GW and the founding of this great nation (as related to GW). I hope someday we may see some more mini-series of the founding of our country and the major players (like HBO's John Adams).
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A collection of speeches, or writings, etc. by George Washington Plunkitt of Tammany Hall, the NYC Democratic machine. Written before 1908, date estimated. He was very honest about what he did and how he did it. He considered using insider information available to him as a politician to buy and sell real estate as "honest graft", as opposed to dishonest graft. He used this to get rich and become a millionaire. He held political office for 40 years, and at one time held 3 political offices, and got paid for three of the four. They certainly had a different morality in that era, and considered civil service as terrible, as the Tammany Hall politicians wanted all government jobs to be available as political spoils for their followers. Interesting book in that he came clean and explains all of the tricks used to win elections and remain in power and get rich off of politics using "honest graft".