Volume Two takes the nation's first president from the end of his career as a great general, through his final days at Mount Vernon, to the often tumultuous yea

When george washington took office, the territory now known as the United States had been for many years a pawn in the struggle between Europe's great powers. I

Based almost entirely on materials reproduced from: The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799 / John C. Fitzpatrick, edi