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Originally Posted by The Batlord
From what I gather he wasn't all that great a commander and basically bought his position but was a good administrator who surrounded himself with talented people.
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Well gathered.
Washington intrigues me as one of the most successfully manufactured personas in history. Yes, I'm being slighty cheeky, but the man was apparently a very expertly controlled emotional holocaust. Check out the Freeman
one volume distillation of his original 7 volume study if you're interested in exploring the depths of the general/statesman/farmer/president's character and the minutiae of pre and post-Revolutionary politics in America. No one's really topped it.