Introducing Washington Irving’s Life of George Washington-1868 HANDMADE EDITION

In 1841 when he arrived back to his beloved home of Sunnyside NY, Irving set to work gathering materials for the task and was not content to write of Washington’s amazing, 1776 retreats across nearby Long Island, Manhattan, White Plains and New Jersey’s Palisades until he had surveyed the sites, personally. He spent month after month at the State Department building in Washington D.C., pouring over all the available correspondence of his subject. This after he had made a pilgrimage to Washington’s ancestral home of Sulgrave Manor, England. This is the kind of detail and inspiration a storyteller seeks in biographies while a historian would be content with the literary and rhetorical record of his subject.

“First in war, first in peace, first in the eyes of his countrymen, he was second to none, in the humble and endearing scenes of private life.”

The results of this effort and Irving’s skill in crafting the story were immediate. The famous 19th century historian George Bancroft could not contain his praise for Irving’s Life.

“[Y]ou have the peculiarity of writing from the heart, enchaining sympathy as well as commanding confidence; the happy magic that makes scenes, events, and personal anecdotes present themselves to you at your bidding.” – George Bancroft to Washington Irving

Modern readers are going to become acquainted with a thrilling portrait of George Washington that has been largely lost to the mists of time. There has been no new publication of Irving’s Magnificent “Life of Washington” since 1920 and no one has bothered to bring the work into the digital age, until now. Now, for the first time, this magnificent work has been fully digitized, corrected, embellished with more illustrations and footnotes and reformatted for modern readers by Mike Church and Founding Father Films Publishing.

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