Chief Justice John Marshall Leather 1st Ed 1804 The Life Of George Washington
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Leather. 8vo. C. P. Wayne, Philadelphia, PA. 1804. Vol. II Only. viii , 560, 72 pgs of notes. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in full leather with gilt titles present to the spine. Boards have wear present to the extremities of the boards (boards are sucffed and worn). Previous owner's name present to the FFEP. Foxing and staining present to the top edge of the text block. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. America’s first president has captivated our inte...rest for more than two centuries, but no biographer of George Washington knew him with the authenticity, intimacy, and depth of understanding as John Marshall exhibited in his book The Life of George Washington. After his appointment to the Supreme Court, Marshall began working on a biography of George Washington. He did so at the request of his close friend, Associate Justice Bushrod Washington, who had inherited the papers of his uncle. Marshall's The Life of George Washington, the first biography about a U.S. president ever published, spanned five volumes and just under one thousand pages. The first two volumes, were poorly-received and seen by many as an attack on the Democratic-Republican Party. Nonetheless, historians have often praised the accuracy and well-reasoned judgments of Marshall's biography, while noting his frequent paraphrases of published sources such as William Gordon's 1801 history of the Revolution and the British Annual Register. Chief Justice John Marshall Leather 1st Ed 1804 The Life of George Washington
