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`Wiencek is a fine writer, a careful historian and an accomplished genealogist who engagingly invites readers into his researches' Raymond Seitz, Daily Telegraph George Washington's will decreed that all his slaves were to be freed; an action that has fuelled controversy, speculation and intrigue ever since. In this groundbreaking work, Henry Wiencek explores the founding father's engagement with slavery at every stage of his life - as a soldier, politician, president and statesman. Based on a meticulous examination of private papers, court records and the voluminous Washington archives, Wiencek recounts the moral transformation that culminated in the emancipation of his slaves. Was this perhaps because - as the oral history of Mount Vernon's slave descendants has long asserted - he'd had a son by a slave called Venus? Using newly discovered evidence, Wiencek argues that this could indeed have been true. . . An Imperfect God is a fascinating and thought-provoking piece of historical detection and a masterpiece of biography.
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The award-winning, revelatory and controversial new biography of George Washington
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Henry Wiencek was born in Boston, educated at Yale, and is now a Fellow at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities. He is the author of several books, including The Hairstons: An American Family in Black and White, which won the 1999 National Book Critics' Circle Award. He lives in Virginia with his wife and son.
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- EditorePan Books
- Data di pubblicazione2005
- ISBN 10 0330488694
- ISBN 13 9780330488693
- RilegaturaCopertina flessibile
- Numero di pagine416
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Pan Books/Pan Macmillan Ltd
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