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Even In The Best Of Lives, Mistakes Are Made.

Chronology, So The Saying Goes, Is The Last Refuge Of The Feeble-minded And The Only Resort For Historians.

I Would Say Readers Can Trust My Work More Than Anyone Else's.

Washington's Task Was To Transform The Improbable Into The Inevitable.

Grand Visions, Even Those As Prescient As Washington's, Must Nevertheless Negotiate The Damnable Particularities That History In The Short Run Tosses Up Before History In The Long Run Arrives To Validate The Vision.