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Book Review


His Excellency: George Washington. By Joseph J. Ellis. (New York: Knopf, 2004. xiv, 320 pp. $26.95, ISBN 1-4000-4031-0.)
This tightly focused character study in the form of a biography is a tale of two fault lines that George Washington learned to straddle successfully, a feat that enabled him to perform the indispensable roles that he played in winning American independence and establishing a strong national government, but a feat that entailed an intense psychological struggle so deep within him that it was largely hidden from the world. One of those fault lines ran through Washington's personality between passion and control. The other one ran through the American Revolution between the liberties for which Americans fought and the means necessary for securing them. . . .
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