Inhalt: You never forget your first: but you do misremember him -- Introduction: The thigh men of Dad history -- part 1. Reluctant rebel. His mother's son -- "Pleases my taste" -- "The world on fire" -- "Blow out my brains" -- The Widow Custis -- "I cannot speak plainer" -- "What manner of man I am" -- "The shackles of slavery" -- part 2. General George Washington's American Revolution: off the battlefied. Hardball with the Howe brothers -- The court of public opinion -- George Washington, Agent 711 -- Eight years away -- "From whence no traveller returns" -- part 3. Mr. President. Unretirement -- The Presidency; or, "The place of his execution" -- Infant nation -- "Political suicide" -- Farewell to "cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men" -- part 5. "I die hard." Final Retirement -- " 'Tis well" -- Epilogue.