For King and Country: George Washington: The Early Years

For King and Country: George Washington: The Early Years by Lewis, Thomas A.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780471104650.

"A daring book . . . a terrific story and Lewis tells it with rare narrative skill . . . a superb writer, with a startling command of the historians art and a powerful interest in the moral aspects that history has always claimed. He also has in the young George Washington a subject of unfailing centrality and importance. His flaws, like those of any human figure worth his salt and worth our time, constitute the ground of his enduring human achievements." —Los Angeles Times Book Review "The story is compelling and Lewis tells it well." —Library Journal "Gracefully and attractively written." —Chicago Tribune For King and Country is a portrait of an ordinary young man enmeshed in extraordinary events: the young George Washington caught up, and striving to excel, amid the bitter rivalry between the French and British for control of the American colonial frontier in the mid-eighteenth century. Drawing heavily on Washingtons own diaries, letters, and dispatches, Thomas A. Lewis follows the future presidents remarkable rise from a callow young man with no inheritance, no trade, and few prospects to the respected commander-in-chief of the military forces of British Americas foremost colony.