GEORGE WASHINGTON, for all his fame, is one of the least known and even less understood American presidents or Revolutionary War figures. Richard Brookhiser, a senior editor of National Review, sought ...
1809-1830: youth -- George Washington and liberty -- 1830-1840: manhood -- Thomas Paine, laughter, and reason -- 1840-1852: maturity -- Henry Clay and the Fourth of July -- 1854: the repeal of the ...