The True George Washington
BY
PAUL LEICESTER FORD,
Author of
“The Honorable Peter Stirling,” etc.
With twenty-four full-page illustrations. Crown 8vo. Cloth, deckle edges, $2.00; three-quarters levant, $5.00.
“This book is a monument of industry.”—New York Nation.
“This is a wonderfully interesting book.”—Buffalo Commercial.
“Mr. Ford’s book is rich in new matter which commends itself as interesting as well as valuable.”—Washington Times.
“Mr. Ford has delved with diligence and with rich reward into contemporary records, correspondence, and traditions, and gives an entertaining account of colonial times and of the personal traits of the Father of His Country.”—Chicago Advance.
“Mr. Ford’s book is important out of all proportion to its size, and will probably be read so long as the name of Washington continues to be revered. Brushing aside the hysterical panegyrics of would-be biographers and historians as well as super-laudatory passages in works otherwise trustworthy and meritorious, Mr. Ford resolutely set out to acquire real knowledge of the man, George Washington. Few of the other heroes of history could pass unscathed through an examination so thorough and so rigid. Every attainable fact that helps to show the Father of His Country as he was in his social and family relations has been carefully considered.”—Boston Evening Gazette.
“This work challenges attention for the really valuable light which it throws upon the character of George Washington. The picture which Mr. Ford here draws of him is careful, life-like, and impressive in the extreme. While his exhaustive researches have resulted in humanizing Washington ‘and making him a man rather than a historical figure,’ a fair and intelligent reader, we submit, will arise from the glowing chapters of Mr. Ford’s work with a larger conception of the character, endowments, and equipment of the first of Americans.... The work embodies a surprising measure of information on a most important as well as interesting subject.”—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin.
J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, PHILADELPHIA.