The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon by John Ferling

On May 28, 2009 John Ferling delivered a Banner Lecture entitled “The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon.”

In 2007 John Ferling spoke at the museum on his history of the Revolutionary War, Almost a Miracle. Now he has drawn on his unsurpassed knowledge of that era to provide a fresh and provocative new portrait of the greatest of the Founders in The Ascent of George Washington.

Dr. Ferling is the author of an earlier biography of George Washington and numerous books on the American Revolution.

This lecture was cosponsored with the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of Virginia. (Introduction by Paul A. Levengood)

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