Selected Bibliography
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From among the thousands of Washington-related
titles in the Library of Congress collections, the bibliography
below highlights the most significant editions of works by
Washington and a limited selection of biographies
and other works particularly useful to general and younger
readers.
Abbot, W.W., et al. , eds. The Papers
of George Washington.
Charlottesville: University Press
of Virginia.
The Diaries of George Washington. 6 vols. 1976-79.
LC Call Number: E312.8 1976 [Catalog
Record]
Colonial Series. 10 vols. 1983-95.
LC Call Number: E312.72 1983 [Catalog
Record]
Revolutionary War Series. Vols. 1- . 1985- .
LC Call Number: E312.72 1985 [Catalog
Record]
Confederation Series. 6 vols. 1992-97.
LC Call Number: E312.72 1992 [Catalog
Record]
Presidential Series. Vols. 1- . 1987- .
LC Call Number: E312.72 1987 [Catalog
Record]
Retirement Series. 4 vols. 1998-99.
LC Call Number: E312.72 1998 [Catalog
Record]
Fitzpatrick, John C., ed. The Writings
of George Washington from the Original Manuscript Sources,
1745-1799; Prepared Under the Direction of the United
States George Washington Bicentennial Commission and Published
by Authority of Congress, 39 volumes. Washington D.C.: U.S.
Govt. Print. Office, 1931-44.
LC Call Number: E312.7 1931 [Catalog
Record]
Rhodehame, John H., ed. George Washington:
Writings. New
York: Library of America, 1997.
LC call number: E312.72 1997 [Catalog
Record]
Twohig, Dorothy, ed. George Washington's
Diaries: An Abridgment.
Charlottesville: University Press of
Virginia, 1999.
LC Call Number: E312.8 1999 [Catalog
Record]
Alden, John R. George Washington: A
Biography.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University, 1984.
LC Call Number:
E312 .A58 1984 [Catalog
Record]
Ellis, Joseph J. His Excellency: George
Washington. New
York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
LC Call Number: E312 .E245 2004 [Catalog
Record]
Flexner, James Thomas. George Washington.
4 vol. Boston: Little, Brown, 1965-1972.
LC Call Number:
E312.2 .F6 (v. 1); E312.25 .F69 (v. 2); E312.29 .F55 (v.
3); E312.29 .F56 (v. 4) [Catalog Record: vol.
1; vol.
2; vol.
3; vol.
4]
Flexner, James Thomas. Washington:
The Indispensable Man. Boston: Little, Brown.
1974.
LC Call Number:
E312 .F556 [Catalog
Record]
Freeman, Douglas Southall. George Washington:
A Biography. 7 volumes. New York: Scribner, 1948-57.
LC Call Number: E312 .F82 [Catalog
Record]
Randall, Willard Sterne. George Washington:
A Life. New
York: Henry Holt & Co., 1997.
LC Call Number: E312 .R196
1997 [Catalog
Record]
Achenbach, Joel. The Grand Idea: George
Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West. New
York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
LC Call Number: F187.P8 A23 2004 [Catalog
Record]
Cunliffe, Marcus. George Washington,
Man and Monument. Boston: Little, Brown, 1958.
LC Call Number: E312 .C88 [Catalog
Record]
Dalzell, Robert F., Jr., and Lee Brown Dalzell. George
Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America. New York:
Oxford University Press, 1998.
LC Call Number: E312.5 .D24 1998 [Catalog
Record]
Fischer, David Hackett. Washington's Crossing. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
LC Call Number: E263.P4 F575 2004 [Catalog
Record]
Gilbert, Felix. To the Farewell Address:
Ideas of Early American Foreign Policy. Princeton:
Princeton University Press, 1961.
LC Call Number: E310.7 .G5 [Catalog
Record]
Henriques, Peter R. Realistic Visionary:
A Portrait of George Washington. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press,
2006.
LC Call Number: E312 .H54 2006 [Catalog
Record]
Higginbotham, Don. George Washington
and the American Military Tradition. Athens: University
of Georgia Press, 1985.
LC Call Number: E312.17 .H63 1985 [Catalog
Record]
Leibiger, Stuart Eric. Founding Friendship:
George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the
American Republic. Charlottesville: University Press
of Virginia, 1999.
LC Call Number: E312.29 .L45 1999 [Catalog
Record]
Longmore, Paul K. The Invention of
George Washington. Berkeley
and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1988.
LC Call Number: E312.17 .L84 1988 [Catalog
Record]
McDonald, Forrest. The Presidency of
George Washington. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas,
1974.
LC Call Number: E311 .M12 [Catalog
Record]
Morgan, Edmund S. The Genius of George
Washington. New York:
Norton, 1980.
LC Call Number: E312.63 .M839 1980 [Catalog
Record]
Smith, Richard Norton. Patriarch: George
Washington and the New American Nation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company,
1993.
LC Call Number: E312.29 .S65 1993 [Catalog
Record]
Wiencek, Henry. An Imperfect God: George
Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. New York: Farrar, Straus
and Giroux, 2003.
LC Call Number: E312.17 .W6 2003 [Catalog
Record]
Guidas, John T, and Marilyn K. Parr, comps. The
Presidents of the United States: The First Twenty Years. Washington,
D.C.: Library of Congress, 1993.
LC Call Number: Z1239 .P74 1993 E310 [Catalog
Record]
Sayler, James, comp. Presidents of
the United States--Their Written Measure: A Bibliography. Washington, D.C.: Library
of Congress, 1996.
LC Call Number: Z1249.P7 S29 1996 [Catalog
Record]
Adler, David A. George Washington: An
Illustrated Biography. New York: Holiday House, 2004.
LC Call Number: E312.66 .A39 2004 [Catalog
Record]
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