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Robert Middlekauff

Biography

Robert Middlekauff

Robert Middlekauff is Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been Director of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (1983-1988), and Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. His books include THE MATHERS: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals 1596-1728, which won the Bancroft Prize; THE GLORIOUS CAUSE: The American Revolution, 1763-1789, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND HIS ENEMIES.

Robert Middlekauff

Books by Robert Middlekauff

by Robert Middlekauff - History, Nonfiction

George Washington was famously unknowable, a man of deep passions hidden behind a facade of rigid self-control. Yet before he was a great general and president, Washington was a young man prone to peevishness and a volcanic temper. His greatness as a leader evolved over time, the product of experience and maturity but also a willed effort to restrain his wilder impulses. Focusing on Washington’s early years, Robert Middlekauff penetrates his mystique, revealing his all-too-human fears, values and passions.