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010 _a 2016045258
020 _a9781476746463 (hardback)
020 _a9781476746470 (paperback)
020 _z9781476746487 (ebook)
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_beng
_erda
_cDLC
_dDLC
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_b.A94 2017
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_aPOL040000
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_2bisacsh
100 1 _aAvlon, John P.,
245 1 0 _aWashington's Farewell :
_bthe founding father's warning to future generations /
_cJohn Avlon.
250 _aFirst Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
264 1 _aNew York :
_bSimon & Schuster,
_c2017.
264 4 _c©2017
300 _ax, 354 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_bn
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_bnc
_2rdacarrier
520 _a"The Farewell was published at the end of Washington's second term. It was reprinted in newspapers across the country. The President began the letter during his first term intending to retire but was persuaded by Hamilton and Jefferson to run for a second. By the end of that term he was the object of scurrilous press attacks and alarmed by the growing partisan bitterness. Fearful for the country's future, Washington pled with his countrymen to resist hyper-partisanship and foreign alliances. He called for unity among "citizens by birth or choice," defended religious pluralism, called for national education. His message to the country was urgent. Avlon describes how it was quoted by Jackson, Webster, Clay, Calhoun, and importantly by Lincoln in defense of the Union. Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson called on it for nation-building; Kennedy for Cold war; Reagan for religion. Clinton kept a copy on his Oval Office wall. In Washington's Farewell, Avlon offers important insight into Washington's his final public days, presenting not only a startling description of the perilous state of the new nation but a rare view of the man behind the usual face of a tranquil First Father"--
_cProvided by publisher.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
600 1 0 _aWashington, George,
_d1732-1799.
_tFarewell address.
600 1 0 _aWashington, George,
_d1732-1799
_xInfluence.
650 0 _aNational characteristics, American.
650 7 _aHISTORY / Military / United States.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aPOLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General.
_2bisacsh
650 7 _aHISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800).
_2bisacsh
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_aAvlon, John P., author.
_tWashington's farewell
_dNew York : Simon & Schuster, 2017
_z9781476746487
_w(DLC) 2016048212
999 _c233432
_d233432