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Here is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. Here is the free-spending landowner whose debts to English merchants instilled him with a prickly resentment of imperial power. We see the general who lost more battles than he won and the reluctant president who tried to float above the partisan feuding of his cabinet. His Excellency is a magnificent work, indispensable to an understanding not only of its subject but also of the nation he brought into being.]]> 1483 3.87 6675 1144 2004 4 2 false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Feb 07 23:08:03 -0800 2008 Thu Feb 07 23:08:29 -0800 2008 more...]]>