Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle
By: Jonathan Horn
3.63
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
Popular historian and former White House speechwriter Jonathan Horn tells the astonishing true stor…
Want to Read $ 15.99"System in all things is the soul of business.' -- GEORGE WASHINGTON, Letter to James Anderson, December 21, 1797."-Jonathan Horn, Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle
"System in all things is the soul of business.' -- GEORGE WASHINGTON, Letter to James Anderson, December 21, 1797."-Jonathan Horn, Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle
"In the composition of the human frame, there is a good deal of inflammable matter; however dormant it may be for a while,...when the torch is put to it, that which is -within you- may burst into a blaze.' --GEORGE WASHINGTON, Letter to Eleanor ('Nelly') Parke Custis, March 21, 1796."-Jonathan Horn, Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle
"In the composition of the human frame, there is a good deal of inflammable matter; however dormant it may be for a while,...when the torch is put to it, that which is -within you- may burst into a blaze.' --GEORGE WASHINGTON, Letter to Eleanor ('Nelly') Parke Custis, March 21, 1796."-Jonathan Horn, Washington's End: The Final Years and Forgotten Struggle
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