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1	Washington: The Indispensable Man more books like this by James Thomas Flexner After more than two decades, this dramatic and concise single-volume distillation of James Thomas Flexner's definitive four-volume biography "George Washington," which received a Pulitzer Prize citation and a National Book Award for the fourth volume, has itself become an American classic. Now in a new trade paperback edition, this masterful work ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	George Washington and the New Nation, (1783-1793) more books like this by James Thomas Flexner This book begins with Washington's return to Mount Vernon, a victorious, but exhausted soldier eagerly seeking the pleasures of a quiet country life. Free of heavy responsibilities, his character expands in genial, often unexpected ways. All too soon, however, the idyll is broken. This promises to be the biography of Washington that will best ... see all copies from $11.02! new only from $42.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The world of Winslow Homer, 1836-1910 more books like this by James Thomas Flexner, Time-Life Books see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.95! \| first editions \| SVS
4	The Traitor and the Spy: Benedict Arnold and John Andre more books like this by James Thomas Flexner An account of the "traitorous trio" who almost toppled the American nation at its birth. Benedict Arnold offered to sell his soldiers, with the key fortress of West Point, and to deliver to the enemy, dead or alive, George Washington. The plot promised to destroy the American battle of freedom. see all copies from $4.13! new only from $16.64! \| first editions \| SVS
5	George Washington: The Forge of Experience 1732 - 1775 - Volume I more books like this by James Thomas Flexner In "George Washington in the American Revolution (1775-1783)," we are witness to eight fateful years, as Washington lived them day by day and month by month. We see a Virginia officer catapulted - despite his obvious military limitations and his own protestations of inadequacy - into the command of an amateur army opposing an experienced European ... see all copies from $10.00! new only from $16.45! \| first editions \| SVS
6	George Washington: Anguish and Farewell 1793-1799 - Volume IV more books like this by James Thomas Flexner "George Washington: Anguish and Farewell" is the fourth and final volume of one of the most distinguished American biographies of our generation. Covering the tumultuous years of Washington's second term as President, his retirement, and his death, the book reveals the almost shattering pressures under which Washington struggled to maintain ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $44.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	That Wilder Image: The Painting of America's Native School from Thomas Cole to Winslow Homer more books like this by James Thomas Flexner see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Steamboats Come True: American Inventors in Action more books like this by James Thomas Flexner In this work, Flexner chronicles the lives of three men, all striving to invent the first steamboat, and shows the pattern of their interwoven fates. In his introduction, Flexner profiles his first protagonist, John Fitch, as "an archetypal wild man of genius ...born to create what would not be accepted, to fight man and God for what he considered ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $24.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	George Washington: Anguish and Farewell 1793-1799 more books like this by James Thomas Flexner In "George Washington in the American Revolution (1775-1783)," we are witness to eight fateful years, as Washington lived them day by day and month by month. We see a Virginia officer catapulted - despite his obvious military limitations and his own protestations of inadequacy - into the command of an amateur army opposing an experienced European ... see all copies from $5.00! first editions
10	George Washington. The forge of experience (1732-1775) more books like this by James Thomas Flexner see all copies from $6.50! first editions
11	States Dyckman: American Loyalist more books like this by James Thomas Flexner 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 Americaas foremost historians. He has written with great distinction in a unique style accessible to and enjoyed by the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $15.71! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Doctors on horseback; pioneers of American medicine more books like this by James Thomas Flexner In this collection of biographies, Flexner combines curious medical lore with the interest of little-known facts of early American history. The scientists he profiles are not household names, but are well known to doctors: Morgan, who founded the first medical school in America and, fighting beside Washington, was ruined by the petty politics of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.00! \| first editions \| SVS
13	William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine more books like this by Simon Flexner, James Thomas Flexner During American medicine's "Heroic Age", when medical training and practice underwent revolutionary change, William Henry Welch emerged as a singular, revolutionary hero. The first full-time faculty member at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, he became the undisputed leader of American scientific medicine and the greatest shaping ... see all copies from $2.99! new only from $29.53! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Maverick's Progress: An Autobiography more books like this by James Thomas Flexner 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. He has penetrated many of the charactrers who have shaped history exposing the intricacies of not ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $19.41! \| signed copies \| first editions
15	America's Old Masters more books like this by James Thomas Flexner see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Young Hamilton more books like this by James Thomas Flexner Written as a character study, Young Hamilton, explores the first twenty-six years of Alexander Hamiltonas life and is designed to reveal how Hamiltonas early years shaped him into the statesman he became. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.97! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	John Singleton Copley. more books like this by James Thomas Flexner 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 ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $35.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	American Saga: The Story of Helen Thomas and Simon Flexner more books like this by James Thomas Flexner 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. The account deals equally with the lives and the backgrounds of husband ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $37.41! \| first editions
19	The Young Hamilton: A Biography more books like this by James Thomas Flexner see all copies from $1.99! new only from $148.00! \| first editions \| SVS
20	Washington: 2the Indispensable Man more books like this by James Thomas Flexner see all copies from $1.99!
21	History of American painting more books like this by James Thomas Flexner Hudson River school to early 20th century. catlin, Bierstadt, Inness, many minor figures. see all copies from $2.90! new only from $28.69! \| first editions \| SVS
22	Hudson River & Migh more books like this by James Thomas Flexner, Robert Glenn Ketchum see all copies from $6.85! new only from $35.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
23	Lord of the Mohawks: A Biography of Sir William Johnson more books like this by James Thomas Flexner see all copies from $13.65! first editions
24	The Light of Distant Skies, 1760-1835 more books like this by James Thomas Flexner see all copies from $1.99! first editions
25 view cover	America's Old Masters: Benjamin West, John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale and Gilbert Stuart more books like this by James Thomas Flexner Concise biographies examine painters, wellsprings of their art, interplay of native tradition and European influence, more. 69 halftones. Bibliography. see all copies from $1.99! first editions

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