1.01 – Washington Pre-Presidency Part One

The transcript for this episode can be found here.

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• Dabney, Virginius. Virginia: The New Dominion. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1971.
• DuVal, Katherine. Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution. New York: Random House, 2015. [ebook edition]
• Ferling, John. The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon. New York, Berlin, and London: Bloomsbury Press, 2009.
• Flexner, James Thomas. Washington: The Indispensable Man. New York: Signet, 1984 [1969].
• Fusonie, Alan, and Donna Jean Fusonie. George Washington: Pioneer Farmer. Mount Vernon, VA: Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association, 2011 [1998].
• Lancaster, Bruce. From Lexington to Liberty: The Story of the American Revolution. Lewis Gannett, ed. Garden City, NY: Doubleday & Co, 1955.
• Wiencek, Henry. An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
• Wyatt-Brown, Bertram. Southern Honor: Ethics & Behavior in the Old South. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982.

The intro and outro music for this episode as well as the remainder of the Washington episodes unless otherwise stated is from “Hail, Columbia” as performed by the US Navy Band. The full recording can be found at Wikipedia. The song was originally called “The President’s March” and was composed for Washington’s first inaugural. More information about the history of “Hail, Columbia” can be found at Wikipedia.