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Title: We Need More Like Him
Review: Ahh, to have more presidents of Washington's caliber. Ahh, to have more authors of Flexner's caliber. James Thomas Flexner does an outstanding job of presenting to the reader the real Washington. This is not a biography written in the fallicious debunking tradition: "Presenting Washington as stupid, dishonest, and venal is still an occupation of hack writers, whose effusions seemingly rise in the best-seller lists in exact relation to their inaccuracy"(409). If you're at all interested in how America really began, in all of its guts and glory, and the man who played an integral part in its shaping, this book is an excellent place to start. We can learn much from the first president of this great country!
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