CLS Book Club // His Excellency, George Washington

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CLS Book Club is FREE, in-person, and open to the public—and also member-researched and led through thoughtfully curated discussion. Whether you’ve finished the book, are thinking about starting it, or couldn’t make it past the halfway point, please join us. RSVP is required via the form below so that we can plan for seating. RSVP HERE! For a copy of the book, check out our catalog here, or shop local at Buxton Books. About Book Club Offered a few times a year, the CLS Book Club seeks to explore a range of topics, authors, and diversity in its book selections. Under this objective, Book Club also offers space for conversation, perspectives, and discourse on His Excellency, George Washington. In a discussion led by Mike Gottlieb and Alysann Sieren, examine the life and legacy of our first president, fitting for the year of the 250. About the Book In this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his figure on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose “statue-like solidity” concealed volcanic energies and emotions.

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