{Nonfiction/History} The Education of George Washington Blog Tour Sign Up

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Austin Washington will be touring May 5-30 with his nonfiction/history, The Education of George Washington.

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  • Reviews (paperback only)
  • Interviews
  • Author Guest Posts
  • Book Spotlights (HTML provided for both blogger and wordpress blogs)

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PUYB Inside the Book

The Education of George Washington 7 In Austin Washington’s new book – – The Education of George Washington – – readers will learn all about President Washington’s true model of conduct, honor, and leadership, including the actual historic document that President Washington used to transform his life from a poorly educated child of a widowed mother, to the historic, curious, highly influential and awe inspiring figure he became and remains today.

Book Excerpt:

The tale of George Washington and the cherry tree has been mistold for two hundred years – – and thus mistakedly criticized, as people have been criticizing a story that Parson Weems never told.  Still despite all the debunking, the story of George Washington and the cherry tree is almost as iconic as Santa Claus and his elves.

PUYB Meet the Author

Austin Washington is the great-nephew of George Washington. He earned his masters and did post-graduate research focusing on colonial American history, and is a writer, musician, entrepreneur and global traveler. He returns to an old Virginia family home whenever he can. Austin’s first book takes a common criticism of his academic writing – “You’re not writing a newspaper editorial, you know!” – and turns it into a virtue, taking a subject dry and dusty in other’s hands and giving it life. He has lived abroad much of his life, most recently in Russia, and visits friends from Sicily to Turkey to Bangladesh and beyond. His earliest influences as a writer were Saki, Salinger, and St. Exupery, although in more recent years he has got beyond the S’s. As for historians, he is partial to the iconoclast Gibbon, who wrote history to change the future.

His latest book is the nonfiction/history book, The Education of George Washington.

For more information, see author Austin Washington discussing his book in a video on his web site at www.austinwashington.com and also on You Tube at: http://youtu.be/1m6OvGRye9U.

* This tour is full.  Thanks to all participating reviewers and blog hosts!

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