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The Truth About Washington
Bowers, Claude G. | February 26, 1930 issue

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The article focuses on the book "George Washington, 1777-1781," by Rupert Hughes. In the book the hand of a realist presents the painting of the U.S. President George Washington as a soldier. Washington is not presented as a military genius of the first order. The contemporary criticisms of his strategy are set forth fully. Washington is shown as more human, more understandable, more masculine and more than ever essential to the success of the mighty enterprise he led and saved. Hughes has taken him from a vulgarly gilded pedestal and brought him to the hearthside where one can see him as a human being.

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GEORGE Washington, 1777-1781 (Book); HUGHES, Rupert; SOLDIERS; SUCCESS; PRESIDENTS; UNITED States
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