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GEORGE WASHINGTON (Vol. V, 570 pp.) -Douglas Soufhall Freeman-Scribner...
Douglas Southall Freeman's marathon biography disposes of this notion once & for all. Though Freeman writes without grace and often loses his story in a wilderness of battle detail, he does bring out Washington's heroic stature. Simply by piling up grey mountains of fact, Freeman shows that those who snipe at Washington for not being a great thinker or military strategist neglect something more important: that he was a great leader...
...martialed, he slandered Washington up & down the states. Congress fretted and fumbled; its appropriations, snapped Quartermaster General Nathanael Greene, were "no more equal to our wants than a sprat in a whale's belly." The encampment at Morristown during the winter of 1779-80 was far worse, by Freeman's measure, than the winter at Valley Forge two years earlier...
...Douglas Southall Freeman I have high regard, and agree that General Eisenhower may be admitted to the society that produced Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson and Wade Hampton; but I would ask the distinguished gentleman of Virginia, what do you say of the general's lieutenants...
...Commie line! Morric Ryskind "Freeman", Sept...