Citizen Washington a novel / William Martin. [CD] /

By:

Martin, William, 1950- [author.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Sound

SoundPublisher number: 39971 | Findaway WorldPublisher: Solon, Ohio : Findaway World, LLC, [2020]Copyright date: �2019Edition: UnabridgedDescription: 1 audio media player (approximately 20 hr.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 inContent type:

spoken word

Media type:

audio
unmediated

Carrier type:

other
other

ISBN:

9781799762041
1799762041

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Genre/Form:

DDC classification:

813/.54 21

LOC classification:

PS3563.A7297 C57 2020d

Read by John Pruden.Summary: "He became the nation's first hero. But before that, George Washington was just a man. And in his youth, he was a man on the make. He wanted to serve the king, so he donned a red coat and fought the French. He loved another man's wife but yearned for status, so he married a rich widow. He dreamed of wealth, so he accumulated land and slaves. He accumulated enemies, too . . . . In Citizen Washington, one of those enemies -- a newspaper publisher named Hesperus Draper -- learns that Martha Washington has burned her husband's letters at his death. So Draper sets his nephew on a quest to find the truth about the letters and about the man himself. The younger Draper meets a dozen people, from Mount Vernon slaves and Iroquois Indians to Jefferson and Adams and the other giants of the era, and they tell their own stories as they tell Washington's: from his callow youth, through the harrowing battles of the Revolution, to the first American presidency.What emerges is a remarkable, multi-faceted portrait of a society reeling toward rebellion, a nation rushing to be born, and a man rising to greatness."-- Provided by publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Audiobook	West Grey Durham Branch Shelves	Fiction	CD FIC MAR (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	2019 Community Foundation Grey Bruce		33321003179836

Total holds: 0

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"HD."

"Light."

Previously released by Brilliance Publishing, Inc., �2019.

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One set of earphones and one AAA battery required for listening.

Read by John Pruden.

"He became the nation's first hero. But before that, George Washington was just a man. And in his youth, he was a man on the make. He wanted to serve the king, so he donned a red coat and fought the French. He loved another man's wife but yearned for status, so he married a rich widow. He dreamed of wealth, so he accumulated land and slaves. He accumulated enemies, too . . . . In Citizen Washington, one of those enemies -- a newspaper publisher named Hesperus Draper -- learns that Martha Washington has burned her husband's letters at his death. So Draper sets his nephew on a quest to find the truth about the letters and about the man himself. The younger Draper meets a dozen people, from Mount Vernon slaves and Iroquois Indians to Jefferson and Adams and the other giants of the era, and they tell their own stories as they tell Washington's: from his callow youth, through the harrowing battles of the Revolution, to the first American presidency.What emerges is a remarkable, multi-faceted portrait of a society reeling toward rebellion, a nation rushing to be born, and a man rising to greatness."-- Provided by publisher.

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