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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
#1 Travel writers say that you must go solo to appreciate the object of your travel. I was relieved to find out that Steinbeck was not as strict about solitude as he claimed to be. He regularly traveled with his wife, who was about to retire from her second career as the executive director of a local nonprofit.
#2 I wanted to find out what Washington got right, and what tools he and...
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English
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"Does George Washington still matter? The bestselling author argues for his unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new President through the former colonies, now an unsure nation. A new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into one narrative. When George Washington became president in 1798, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative...
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Godine
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2022.
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English
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"A tour through the original thirteen colonies in search of historical sites and their stories in America's founding. Obscure, well-known, off-the-beaten path, urban, here are taverns, meeting houses, battlefields, forts, monuments, homes whose rich heritage all combine to define our country-the places where daring people forged a revolution. There is always something new to be found in America's past that also brings greater clarity to our present,...
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