The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West AUTH-23212 ISBN13: 9780548615683

ISBN13: 9780548615683

Pub Date: September 20

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The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West AUTH-23212 ISBN13: 9780548615683The Grand Idea follows George Washington in the critical period immediately after the War of Independence. The general had great hopes for his young nation, but also grave fears. He worried that the United States was so fragmented politically and culturally that it would fall apart, and that the West, beyond the Appalachian mountains, would become a breakaway republic. So he came up with an ambitious scheme: He would transform the Potomac River into