“First In The Hearts Of His Fellow Citizens”
Washington’s life story is inextricably linked to that of the founding of the United States, and no man was better suited to the task of depicting the actions and character of the first President than Chief Justice John Marshall: as a personal friend, Marshall announced the President’s death in 1799, offered the eulogy, chaired the committee that arranged the funeral rites, and led the commission to plan a monument in the capital city.
This is the life of a great man – and the birth of a great nation – written by a man very nearly the equal of his subject, drawn chiefly from Washington’s own diaries, letters and secret archives. Marshall’s “indispensable” five-volume Life was accompanied by an atlas volume containing ten engraved folding maps of Revolutionary War battlefields and troop movements, and is graced by Gilbert Stuart’s famous portrait.
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Hello, I have a single book (volume 5) of this set. It has some inscriptions on the inside referencing the names “Lawrence Gibbons” of York town, and “Thomas Nelson Jr” who apparently bought it from L Gibbons. It was published in 1807, in Philadelphia. I am writing to see if perhaps you know anything more about this book. It’s origins are unknown in my family.
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Mary Blain