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To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J.

Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric

prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the

Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes

seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses

George Washington as a military and political leader and a man

whose “statue-like solidity” concealed volcanic energies and

emotions.

Here is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in

combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. Here is the

free-spending landowner whose debts to English merchants instilled

him with a prickly resentment of imperial power. We see the general

who lost more battles than he won and the reluctant president who

tried to float above the partisan feuding of his cabinet. His

Excellency is a magnificent work, indispensable to an

understanding not only of its subject but also of the nation he

brought into being.

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Joseph Ellis is the Pulitzer Prize_winning author of Founding

Brothers. His portrait of Thomas Jefferson, American

Sphinx, won the National Book Award. He lives in Amherst,

Massachusetts, with his wife, Ellen, and their youngest son,

Alex.

From the Hardcover edition.

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他完美无瑕地完成了自己的核心使命，为一个实际上海在成长之中的“更美好的联邦”提供了难以估量的合法性。在政治舞台上，他和战争时期担任总司令一样，表现出卓越的领导才能。...为了维持联邦政府的权威，他避开政治斗争（例如司法制度和奴隶制），在公众舆论所能容许的范围内稳步推进联邦主权。

华盛顿每次都准备要放弃一些东西，然而我们更应该注意到，每一次的放弃都使他获得了更大的回报：丰厚的财富，战争的胜利，在世人心中永垂不朽的地位。所有的主动放弃都导致了另一次获得。

初露头角的华盛顿同时展现了自己两方面的性格特征：首先，他很怕听到别人的批评，尤其是当这种批评质疑到他自认为不可指责的个人动机时；其次，他一边宣布对政治毫无兴趣，一边却能把政治游戏玩得很好。

华盛顿并不只是在表达个人对英国人优越地位的深刻鄙视，同时也是在劝勉弗吉尼亚人像他在芒特佛农作园所做的那样，实现经济上的自足。正是在这一时刻，华盛顿首次将那些形成个人性格的深刻教训与美国独立的巨大目标联系在了一起。

关于黑奴的比喻让人震惊，不只是因为它鲜明地刻画了来自伦敦的控制力，而且因为它直接来自于华盛顿同志自己奴隶的个人体验。...因为这种以个人可以对另一个施加无限控制权的可能，正是缘于他的亲身体验。...他相信英国人的阴谋正在逐步展开。这一信念几乎成了激进的辉格党（Whig）思想中的经典例子，而在过去40年的美国革命研究中，辉格党思想已经成了历史学家讨论的一个核心问题。这些历史学家发现，在英国的异见分子即所谓的“乡村党”中，存在着关于“自由与权力不可调和”等一些烈观点。...他们对18世纪60年代英国议会立法情况的看法，至少部分地是通过阅读乡村党人对英国政府腐败和阴谋的描述而得来的。

他自己的反抗思想主要不是来源于书本，而是来源于亲身体验，它们反映了英帝国的飞扬跋扈。...从内心说，华盛顿延误任何形式的依赖关系，他总是强调自身的作用，而对凌驾于自我控制之上的任何权威，都从内心深处感到无法信任。

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" [Ellis has done it again. This is an important and challenging

work: beautifully written, lively, serious and engaging.” –The

Boston Globe

“Absorbing. . . . An incisive portrait [that] eloquently conveys

the magnitude of Washington’s accomplishments.” –The New York

Times

“Absolutely fascinating. . . . Underscores how extraordinary

Washington’s accomplishments really were.” –The Christian

Science Monitor

“Lively and engaging. . . . An accessible portrait. . . . Ellis

writes simply but eloquently. His prose is lucid, graceful and

witty, his book is hard to put down. . . . Should be required

reading.” –Los Angeles Times Book Review

媒体评论

" [Ellis has done it again. This is an important and challenging

work: beautifully written, lively, serious and engaging.” —

The

Boston Globe

“Absorbing. . . . An incisive portrait [that] eloquently conveys

the magnitude of Washington’s accomplishments.” —

The New York

Times

“Absolutely fascinating. . . . Underscores how extraordinary

Washington’s accomplishments really were.” —

The Christian

Science Monitor

“Lively and engaging. . . . An accessible portrait. . . . Ellis

writes simply but eloquently. His prose is lucid, graceful and

witty, his book is hard to put down. . . . Should be required

reading.” —

Los Angeles Times Book Review

书籍介绍

普利策奖得主约瑟夫·艾利斯（Joseph J. Ellis）的著述是近年来最为畅销的华盛顿传记