JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT

JOURNAL ASSIGNMENT

Political Biography

Vivid on the one hand and factually solid on the other, Flexner's narrative absorbingly displays us the future champion as a callow youth, composing awful verse and in love with love.  We glimpse the era and the humanity which formed Washington and the persons who mattered to him: his mother, who became an obdurate squatter on the ranch he inherited; his beloved and ailing older male sibling, Lawrence, who wed into the differentiated Fairfax family; George William Fairfax, who, in turn, wed Sally Cary; and Sally, who mixed in Washington such forbidden ardor that twenty-five years subsequent he ...