The Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace by Richard Brookhiser

The Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace

Richard Brookhiser

90 pages • first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction biography history politics informative fast-paced
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In the early eighteenth century, a young George Washington copied out by hand 110 rules for civil behavior in a little notebook. These rules, borrowed from a text used by generations of Jesuit tutors, provided a common-sense framework for any youn...

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