Washington: a life

Prelude: the portrait artist

PART ONE: The frontiersman. A short-lived family

Fortune's favorite

Wilderness mission

Bloodbath

Shades of death

The soul of an army

A votary to love

Darling of a grateful country

PART TWO: The planter. The man of mode

A certain species of property

The prodigy

Providence

A world of his own

The Asiatic prince

A shock of electricity

PART THREE: The general. The glorious game

Magnificent bluff

Land of freedom

The heights

All London afloat

Disaster

An indecisive mind

The crossing

The busy scenes of a camp

Darkness visible

Rapping a demigod over the knuckles

A dreary kind of place

The long retreat

Pests of society

The storm thickens

The traitor

Mutiny

Plundering scoundrels

The world turned upside down

Man of moderation

Closing the drama with applause

Cincinnatus

PART FOUR: The statesman. American celebrity

Gentleman farmer

Devil's bargain

The ruins of the past

A masterly hand

A house on fire

Rising sun

Mounting the seat

PART FIVE: The president. The place of execution

Acting the presidency

The cares of office

Rays of genius

The traveling presidency

The state of the president

Capital matters

Southern exposure

Running into extremes

A tissue of machinations

Citizen Genet

Bring out your dead

Hercules in the field

Crowns and coronets

Mad dog

The colossus of the people

The master of farewells

Exiting the stage

PART SIX:The legend. Samson and Solomon

A mind on the stretch

Freedom

Homecoming.