{"product_id":"george-washington","title":"George Washington: A Biography","description":"\u003cp\u003eNew York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1948-54. First edition. Total of 94 illustrations, 53 maps, and 2 musical scores. Octavo. Six volumes. Publisher's full blue cloth stamped and ruled in gilt on spine. Vol. I: xxvi, 549, 13 illustrations, 5 maps; Vol. II: vi, 464, 12 illustrations, 3 maps; Vol. III: xxxvi, 599, 15 illustrations, 6 maps; Vol. IV: viii, 736, 15 illustrations, 24 maps; Vol. V: xvi, 570, 14 illustrations, 12 maps, 2 musical scores; Vol. VI: xlv, 529, 20 illustrations, 3 maps. Vol. 5 and 6 have fading on gilt, edge-wear to cloth, pressed corners, light scratching to cloth covers, light scratching to text blocks. Overall, very good copies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eDouglas Southall Freeman's \u003cem\u003eGeorge Washington\u003c\/em\u003e ranks among the most exhaustive lives written of any American, issued by Charles Scribner's Sons across nearly a decade. Freeman, for years editor of the Richmond \u003cem\u003eNews Leader\u003c\/em\u003e, and already a Pulitzer winner for his four-volume \u003cem\u003eR. E. Lee,\u003c\/em\u003e took up Washington as his last work, leaving journalism in 1949 to give it his full attention. He carried over the \"fog of war\" method of the Lee: presenting events only as far as Washington himself could have known them at a given moment, so the reader follows his judgment forming rather than reading back from the outcome. The effect was to loosen a figure long stiffened into monument, restoring a Washington who was fallible and deliberate, an improbably successful commander against the British and, afterward, a careful steward of an untried republic. His contemporaries did not stint their regard; the historian Allan Nevins reckoned him \"America's greatest biographer.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThe completed work would go on to receive the 1958 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, Freeman's second, awarded after his death. Each of the six volumes is a first printing, carrying the Scribner's seal and the letter \"A\" on the copyright page, and the text is illustrated throughout with frontispieces, plates, and maps.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"UNCIAL","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":59766751068446,"sku":"UN-0029","price":400.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1082\/2094\/0574\/files\/PANA3035.jpg?v=1786567914","url":"https:\/\/uncialrarebooks.com\/products\/george-washington","provider":"UNCIAL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}