The complete online text of The Life of George Washington, Vol. 3 (of 5) by John Marshall.

As the fourth chief justice of the United States, John Marshall (1755-1835) was the principal architect in consolidating and defining the powers of the Supreme Court. Perhaps more than any other man he set the prevailing tone of American constitutional l...

The Papers of George Washington. Retirement Series. [Vol.] 1: March-December 1797; [Vol.] 2: January-September 1798; [Vol.] 3: September 1798-April 1799; [Vol.] 4: April-December 1799. Edited by Dorothy Twohig. (Charlottesville and London: University Press of Virginia, c. 1998, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 566; xxvi, 646;...

THIS BIOGRAPHY of George Washington is not the best. Still less is it the most historically significant (that honor probably belongs to Parson Weems's). It was never even finished. But part of it was published, anonymously, in 1789; it had the sanction of...