Robert K. Faulkner is research professor of political science at Boston College and the author, most recently, of The Case for Greatness: Honorable Ambition and Its Critics (Yale University Press).
Robert Middlekauff has written a morally generous and politically shrewd account of how politically formative was George Washington, even before his two terms as president.
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