Biography is alienating those the way the visual presentation there, the way they are written so i wanted the reader to feel like they had never read the president ial biography that they had everything they needed at the beginning of the book at the beginning of each section to equip them to feel as though they were the experts so that was part of it, i did think a lot about my reader and the other part, washington has been called by an adams family series editor, president ial editor. They edit the papers. Called him that to my face. [laughter] adams which you cant compare, there too much fun. The thing is, you can break him out of this mode, he can be fun and interesting but you have to have fun with them, its a whole different thing but a lot of the things you see are the way i organized it in my head when i was trying to make sure that things across and i decided to be vulnerable and share with everyone. I do think there are certain things that help you understand, i can tell you
George washington and why its different than other biographies of americas first president , he spoke at politics and pros store in washington, d. C. I want president ial history because the presidency and especially the person that establishes the office and built around and everyone pressure intoed it its really important that everyone understand him and the presidency but i think that the biographies are alienating in the way that their visual presentation, their titles the way that they are written, and so i really wanted the reader to feel like they had if they had never read a president ial biography that they had everything they needed at the beginning of the book and at the beginning of every section to equip them to feel as though they were the experts and so that was part of it. I really did think a lot about my reader and the other part of it was not washington has been called by an adams family editor, president ial editors, they edit the papers, called him vanilla once to
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Booktv. Org. And no one book tv, were showing you some programs about u. S. President s. First this past february, lexus took talks about a biography of George Washington bridge offers her thoughts about why her book is different than other books on the same. She spoke with no times colonists in politics and prose bookstores in washington dc re read. I want to president ial history because the presidency and especially the one who it was it bill sora, who everyone pressured into it. Its really important that everyone understands him in the presidency. But i think the biographies are alienating those in the way that they their visual presentations, there title some of the way they are written. So i really wanted it the reader to be like that if they have never read a president ial biography, they had everything that they needed at the beginning of the book and then at the beginning of the section come to equip them to feel they are ready the experts. I really did think a lot about my re