“Where George got his great military talents, is a question which none but the happy believers in a particular Providence can solve: certain it is, his earthly parents had no hand in it. For of his father, tradition says nothing, save that he was a most amiable old gentlemen; one who made good crops, and scorned to give his name to the quill-drivers of a counting-room. And as to his mother, it is well known that she was none of Bellona's firey race.”
Written a year after Washington's death, Weems's biography served as the point of origin for many long-held myths about Washington, in particular the famous cherry tree story.
Author: Mason L. Weems
Title: A History of the Life and Death, Virtues and Exploits of General George Washington
Edition: Reprint, Mount Vernon Edition
Published: Philadelphia and London: J. B. Lippincott Company, 1918
Physical Description: Hardcover; Octavo; 288p
Condition: Fair condition dust jacket with edge wear & chipping, tape repairs to tears, and toning—in new protector. Boards and spine very clean with edge wear, bumping to corners, and crushing at spine ends. Binding sturdy and square. Pages tanned.
Comments: Handsome copy
