Stories of George Washington
One Man of Virtue
The Story of Washington
by Jessie Smith (1898) A short, simple book in which young student re-tell the story of Washington. Unique. The Story of Young George Washington
by Wayne Whipple (1915) This book “ . . . tells especially of Washington’s boyhood and youth, and of causes and conditions under which his heroic heart began to express itself . . .” The Heart of Washington: an Intimate Study of the Father of His Country from the Personal Human Side (1916)
Washington’s Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation (1888)
by Joseph Toner The Story of George Washington
by Joseph Walker (1922) Famous Americans for Young Readers “ . . . a new generation of young Americans is on its way to the control of state affairs, and no better training in citizenship can be placed within their hands than the plain unvarnished story of each of our great leaders . . . Treated as a human being, Washington becomes a good comrade and friend whom every boy and girl should know and love.” A Little Story of Washington’s Crossing
by Francis Lee (1910) Retelling of the crossing of the Delaware. |
The Story of Washington
by Elizabeth Eggleston Seelye and Edward Eggleston (1893) “This present account of Washington, while giving careful attention to his military and administrative acts, has spared no pains to record as far as possible those details of his life and those personal anecdotes that preserve to us the living man.” The Wonderful Story of Washington and the Meaning of His Life for the Youth and Patriotism of America
by C.M. Stevens (1917) “The public-schooled youth, who is not in one way or another familiar with the Americanism of Washington . . . is not prepared to be an American. The number of un-Americans in America may, in some crisis, become appalling, if, in fact, they do not succeed in Europeanizing America. Against that possibility there is nothing to save us, if we do not save ourselves as our hereditary task of American patriotism. . . American life and its ideal humanity cannot be understood by American youth until the wonderful character and struggle of [Washington is] understood as the expression and the meaning of America.” The Story-Life of Washington–A Life History in Five Hundred True Stories, Selected from Original Sources and Fitted Together in Order
by Wayne Whipple (1911) “It is the intention here to avail ourselves of hundreds of [snapshots] and focus them together like a composite photograph, or rather, from all sides and angles of view, make a solid, living, moving pictures of George Washington.” |