"A daring book ...a terrific story and Lewis tells it with rare narrative skill ...a superb writer, with a startling command of the historian's art and a powerful interest in the moral aspects that history has always claimed. He also has in the young George Washington a subject of unfailing centrality and importance. His flaws, like those of any human figure worth his salt and worth our time, constitute the ground of his enduring human achievements." -Los Angeles Times Book Review "The story is compelling and Lewis tells it well." -Library Journal "Gracefully and attractively written." -Chicago Tribune For King and Country is a portrait of an ordinary young man enmeshed in extraordinary events: the young George Washington caught up, and striving to excel, amid the bitter rivalry between the French and British for control of the American colonial frontier in the mid-eighteenth century. Drawing heavily on Washington's own diaries, letters, and dispatches, Thomas A. Lewis follows the future president's remarkable rise from a callow young man with no inheritance, no trade, and few prospects to the respected commander-in-chief of the military forces of British America's foremost colony.
- ISBN10 0060167777
- ISBN13 9780060167776
- Publish Date 1 February 1993
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 21 February 2008
- Publish Country US
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint HarperPerennial
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 320
- Language English