Captures the essence of Washington's career and character by recounting his life and examining his frailties, triumphs, ambitions, and ideals

Product Description: Book by James Thomas Flexner, Flexner, James Thomas

James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer for most of his adult life. After several years spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune after graduating from Harvard University, Flexner went on to become one of America's foremost historians. He has written with great distinction in a unique style accessible to and enjoyed by the scholar and general reader, twenty-six books in the fields of American history and art. Although he is principally known for his kistorical books, notably his four-volume biography of George Washington, Flexner has written in many forms and for many outlets. He has written for print and television; he has been a lecturer, columnist, reviewer, andeven a fiction writer. Collected here are samplings of Flexner's literary accomplishments throughout his long career (spanning over 60 years). In Random Harvest you will find pieces that appeared in Esquire Magaine, Time, The New York Times, Travel and Leisure, and even TV Guide. Included is an essay on George Washington and Watergate, on the art of biography, and many more. For the fan of Flexner, American history, and the art of a writer, in Random Harvest there is something to be enjoyed for everyone.

Product Description: National book Award laureate; recipient of Special Pulitzer Prize citation; winner of the Life in America Prize the Archives of American Art Award; among many others, James Thomas Flexner has written with distinction about American history and art...read more

A portrait of the American lawyer and political leader which provides insights into his energy, intellectual force, tempestuous public life, and troubled personality (view table of contents)

Product Description: This tale of two families is set on a grand scale, as James Thomas Flexner brings his talents to bear on his own noteworthy heritage. An American Saga is an historical narrative, grounded on documentary sources, which ends with the marriage of Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner...read more

Product Description: This is Flexner's portrait of Gilbert Stuart, painter of George Washington, and other founding fathers, who once shied away from a self-portrait he had begun to please his bride. Flexner presents us with a portrait constructed as the artist would have constructed it, frank, without flattery, profound, and soul-stirring...read more

Profiles the four eighteenth-century painters who earned the earliest international acclaim for American art

Product Description: A book for both the general reader of American history and the student of art, Flexner's study of Copley (1738-1815) brings into vivid detail the struggle the artist endured against an unfavorable environment in the New World, his rise to fame, the development of his unique style, and the personal growth of the man who became America's first great artist...read more

Product Description: James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer most of his adult life. After several year spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune after graduating from Harvard University , Flexner went on to become one of America's foremost historians...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: James Thomas Flexner has been a professional writer most of his adult life. After several year spent at the City desk at the New York Herald Tribune after graduating from Harvard University , Flexner went on to become one of America's foremost historians...read more

Looks at the work of George Catlin, genre painters, Frederick Church, the Rocky Mountain School, and native American impressionists

Looks at the work of Benjamin West, Charles Willson Peale, Samuel Morse, Audubon, Gilbert Stuart, John Singleton Copley, and John Trumbull (view table of contents)

Product Description: This Dover Edition, first published in 1969, is an unabridged republication, with minor corrections, of the work as published in 1947 by Houghton Mifflin Company. There is a new introduction, two new illustrations, and two others have been substituted for those in the original edition...read more

Photographs show the beauty of the woodlands, marshes, meadows, and parks along the Hudson River

Profiles the four eighteenth-century painters--Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, and Gilbert Stuart--who earned the earliest international acclaim for American art

Examines the daring double life of Sir William Johnson--Loyalist, diplomat, frontiersman, and warrior

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