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| گوینده: | Edward Herrmann |
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کتاب Washington نوشته ران چرنو، زندگی جورج واشنگتن را از دوران کودکی تا پایان ریاستجمهوری او با جزئیاتی گسترده و روایتی زنده بررسی میکند. چرنو تلاش میکند تصویری فراتر از چهره رسمی و اسطورهای واشنگتن ارائه دهد و مردی واقعی را نشان دهد؛ فردی بلندپرواز، پرشور، گاهی تندخو و در عین حال بسیار مراقب تصویری که از خود به دیگران نشان میداد.
کتاب مسیر زندگی واشنگتن را از سالهای جوانی و حضورش در جنگهای فرانسه و سرخپوستان تا مالکیت مونتورنون، فرماندهی ارتش قارهای در انقلاب آمریکا، نقش او در تدوین قانون اساسی و سرانجام ریاستجمهوری دنبال میکند. در کنار این وقایع تاریخی، زندگی خصوصی او نیز با دقت بررسی میشود؛ از رابطه با مادر و مارتا واشنگتن گرفته تا روابط خانوادگی و دیدگاه پیچیده او نسبت به بردهداری.
چرنو همچنین نقش واشنگتن در شکلگیری دولت جدید آمریکا و روابط او با چهرههایی مانند الکساندر همیلتون، جیمز مدیسون، جان آدامز و توماس جفرسون را بررسی میکند. نتیجه، روایتی جامع از یکی از مهمترین چهرههای تاریخ آمریکا و فرایند شکلگیری کشور جدید است.
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Bestseller, a landmark biography of George Washington.
In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian War, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America’s first president.
Despite the reverence his name inspires, Washington remains a lifeless waxwork for many Americans, worthy but dull. A laconic man of granite self-control, he often arouses more respect than affection. In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow dashes forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man. A strapping six feet, Washington was a celebrated horseman, elegant dancer, and tireless hunter, with a fiercely guarded emotional life. Chernow brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods. Probing his private life, he explores his fraught relationship with his crusty mother, his youthful infatuation with the married Sally Fairfax, and his often conflicted feelings toward his adopted children and grandchildren. He also provides a lavishly detailed portrait of his marriage to Martha and his complex behavior as a slave master.
At the same time, Washington is an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people. Not only did Washington gather around himself the foremost figures of the age, including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, but he also brilliantly orchestrated their actions to shape the new federal government, define the separation of powers, and establish the office of the presidency.
In this unique biography, Ron Chernow takes us on a page-turning journey through all the formative events of America’s founding. With a dramatic sweep worthy of its giant subject, Washington is a magisterial work from one of our most elegant storytellers.
Ron Chernow’s new biography, Grant, will be published by Penguin Press in October 2017.
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