Author of “The Honorable Peter Stirling,” etc.
With twenty-four full-page illustrations. Crown 8vo. Cloth, deckle edges,
$2.00; three-quarters levant, $5.00.
“This book is a monument of industry.”--_New York Nation._
“This is a wonderfully interesting book.”--_Buffalo Commercial._
“Mr. Ford’s book is rich in new matter which commends itself as
interesting as well as valuable.”--_Washington Times._
“Mr. Ford has delved with diligence and with rich reward into contemporary
records, correspondence, and traditions, and gives an entertaining
account of colonial times and of the personal traits of the Father of His
Country.”--_Chicago Advance._
“Mr. Ford’s book is important out of all proportion to its size, and
will probably be read so long as the name of Washington continues to be
revered. Brushing aside the hysterical panegyrics of would-be biographers
and historians as well as super-laudatory passages in works otherwise
trustworthy and meritorious, Mr. Ford resolutely set out to acquire
real knowledge of the man, George Washington. Few of the other heroes
of history could pass unscathed through an examination so thorough and
so rigid. Every attainable fact that helps to show the Father of His
Country as he was in his social and family relations has been carefully
considered.”--_Boston Evening Gazette._
“This work challenges attention for the really valuable light which it
throws upon the character of George Washington. The picture which Mr.
Ford here draws of him is careful, life-like, and impressive in the
extreme. While his exhaustive researches have resulted in humanizing
Washington ‘and making him a man rather than a historical figure,’ a fair
and intelligent reader, we submit, will arise from the glowing chapters
of Mr. Ford’s work with a larger conception of the character, endowments,
and equipment of the first of Americans.... The work embodies a surprising
measure of information on a most important as well as interesting
subject.”--_Philadelphia Evening Bulletin._