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His name is carved in granite, his likeness cast in bronze, his legend as large as the role he played as America s first president. But before he was a commander-in-chief, George Washington was a general in a revolution that would decide the future of the people and land he called his own. If victorious, he would gain immortality. If defeated, he would find his neck in a hangman s noose.

Washington knew the sting of defeat—at Brandywine, at Germantown—yet this unwavering leadership and his vision for a new and independent nation emboldened an army prepared to fight barefoot if necessary to win that independence. Wrote an officer after the Battle of Princeton:   I saw him brave all the dangers of the field and his important life hanging as it were by a single hair with a thousand deaths flying around him.

Among America s pantheon of Founding Fathers, one man to this day stands out.  Author Paul Vickery tracks the unlikely rise of Washington, a man whose stature in command of a young army became prelude to a presidency. As Vickery writes, He learned to become the father of our country by first being the father of our military.

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