Washington Lessons in Leadership [Paperback]

Before he became the Father of our Country, George Washington was the Father of the American Army. He took troops that had no experience, no tradition, and no training, and fought a protracted war against the best, most disciplined force in the worldthe British Army. Deftly handling the political realm, he left his mark with a vision of the Revolution as a war of attrition and his offensives which were as brilliant as they were unpredictable. InWashington, award-winning author Gerald M. Carbone argues that it is this sort of fearless but not reckless, spontaneous but calculated offensive that Washington should be remembered foras a leader not of infallibility but of greatness.

Gerald M. Carboneis the author ofNathanael Greene, and was a journalist for twenty-five years, mostly for theProvidence Journal.He has won two of American journalism's most prestigious prizes--the American Society of Newspaper Editors Distinguished Writing Award and a John S. Knight Fellowship at Stanford University. He lives in Warwick, Rhode Island.

General Wesley K. Clark (Ret.)was NATO's Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, and the recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He is author ofA Time to Lead, as well as the bestselling booksWaging Modern WarandWinning Modern Wars.He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.

Good generalship is about tactics, butgreatgeneralship requires vision, grit, character, charisma, daring, and drive. Despite losing more battles than he won, Washington enjoyed these virtues in spades, and Carbone persuasively makes the case for greatness in his vigorous, stirring account of this essential Founding Father's military career. Alexander Rose, author of Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring

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