Synopses & Reviews
In the fall of 1798, Washington was immersed in the business ofcreating a military force to deal with the threat of an all-out war with France. Aclash over Alexander Hamilton's rank in the army led Washington to contemplateresignation of his own post as commander in chief of the army, and the resolution ofthis affair brought no opportunity for rest as Washington engaged in the tedioustask of finding officers for the new military formations. Despite all of this hestill found time in the months that followed to build houses on Capitol Hill inWashington, D.C., seek the funds to put his financial affairs in order, oversee themarriage of Nelly Custis to Lawrence Lewis, and lament the divided state of Americanpolitics.