{"id":296,"date":"2006-10-22T01:29:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-22T05:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scriniary.smallinfinity.net\/blog\/2006\/10\/22\/12-his-excellency-joseph-j-ellis\/"},"modified":"2006-10-22T01:29:00","modified_gmt":"2006-10-22T05:29:00","slug":"12-his-excellency-joseph-j-ellis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/22\/12-his-excellency-joseph-j-ellis\/","title":{"rendered":"His Excellency, Joseph J. Ellis (12)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Biography of George Washington.<\/a> Part of my plan to learn American History and steal it for fiction.<\/p>\n

This was a very enjoyable book. Washington comes across as an ambitious, but not self-serving, man. Not a particularly good general, and sometimes too slow to realize he could no longer trust former friends.<\/p>\n

I know very little American history, having forgotten most of what I was supposed to learn in my weird intro course in college and my really bad AP course in high school. So I’m slowly reading books. A while back I listened to a tape of Isaacson’s biography of Benjamin Franklin<\/a>, which made me want to read a biography of John Adams (in particular, the McCullough one<\/a>). Next up, however, is Ellis’s Founding Brothers<\/a>, which I listened to the beginning of in June, and bought (in paper form) a few weeks ago. Also on the list is Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton<\/a>. From what I’ve read so far, Hamilton makes a great villain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Biography of George Washington. Part of my plan to learn American History and steal it for fiction. This was a very enjoyable book. Washington comes across as an ambitious, but not self-serving, man. Not a particularly good general, and sometimes … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elizabethshack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}