Alexis Coe

"In a genre overdue for a shakeup, Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds he's not quite the man we remember Young George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, chased rich young women, caused an international incident, and never backed down--even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle. But after he married Martha, everything changed. Washington became the kind of man who named his dog Sweetlips and hated to leave home. He took up arms against the British only when there was no other way, though he lost more battles than he won. Coe focuses on his activities off the battlefield--like espionage and propaganda. After an unlikely victory in the Revolutionary War, Washington once again shocked the world by giving up power, only to learn his compatriots wouldn't allow it. The founders pressured him into the presidency--twice. He established enduring norms but left office heartbroken over the partisan nightmare his backstabbing cabinet had created. Back on his plantation, the man who fought for liberty finally confronted his greatest hypocrisy--what to do with the hundreds of men, women, and children he owned--before succumbing to a brutal death. Alexis Coe combines rigorous research and unsentimental storytelling, finally separating the man from the legend."--

A Biography of George Washington

You Never Forget Your First

Looks at the 1892 murder of seventeen-year-old Freda Ward by her lover Alice Mitchell, examining their love affair and how the court and the nation reacted to their tragic same-sex relationship with greater shock than the crime itself.

A Murder in Memphis

Alice + Freda Forever

Amy Reed

Bhanu Kapil

Natalie Baszile

Jacob M. Appel

Quincy Troupe

Judy Grahn

Eugenia Leigh

Eric Gamalinda

Susanna Sonnenberg

Tony Phillips

Tsering Wangmo Dhompa

Ajuan Mance

Indira Allegra

Kris Brandenburger

Chip Goldstein

Lisa Grey

John Pleucker

Liana Scalettar

Cindy Shearer

Margaret Porter Troupe

Interdisciplinary arts print magazine published annually by the MFA program at California Institute of Integral Studies

Mission at Tenth

Alexis Coe

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