François & Jean-Claude Duvalier
Erin Condit
Traces the lives of the man who served as president of Haiti from 1957 to 1971 and his son who succeeded him as president until his overthrow in 1986.
Read Time: ~7.1 hr
Patriarch
by Richard Norton Smith (1993)
About this book
Repeatedly during his eight years as president, George Washington saved the infant republic from the factionalism and the involvement in foreign wars that threatened its existence. He skillfully moderated the feuds among his cabinet -- especially those between Hamilton and Jefferson -- and achieved his own political ends by seeming to be above politics. His actions and character defined the very nature of the presidency and, even more than the Constitution itself, made the new American government work. Better than any biographer before him, Richard Norton Smith gives us the "living" Washington, a working politician beset by crises, a masterly manager of men and events, anything but the time-worn marble monument. - Back cover.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraModern Era
Protagonist / CorePatriarch Lead Character
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