![]() ![]() Read this book and you will understand why." -Joseph J. Washington once said that, if he went down in battle, Greene was his choice to succeed him. ![]() ![]() This fine biography includes among its pleasures a love story (with its share of thorns amid the roses), a loquacious subject whose letters, for all their quaint spelling, are full of the eloquently-expressed passions of a gifted, beleaguered man, and perhaps most important of all, a wonderfully vivid reminder of what a reckless, audacious, almost miraculous adventure we Americans embarked upon when we decided we needed a nation of our own., "While researching and writing a book about George Washington, I concluded that Nathanael Greene was the most under appreciated great man in the War for Independence, and that he deserved a modern biography that told his incredible story. In a spirited, wholly engrossing narrative, Terry Golway summons this underappreciated figure back from the mists and puts the living man before us with all his crochets, self-pity, self-doubt-and the tenacious, high-hearted optimism that, along with a wholly self-taught military master, more than once saved his infant republic. If George Washington was the one indispensable man in our Revolution, Nathanael Greene was surely Washington's one indispensable general. ![]()
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