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Supremely convinced of this point, Brookhiser has gone ahead and brought out his own little edition of Washington's rules under the title Rules of Civility: The 110 Precepts That Guided Our First President in War and Peace , slightly altered to eliminate the 18 th -century idiosyncrasies (a pity) and emended with small commentaries by Brookhiser himself, some of them pertaining to events in Washington's life, others solemnly applying of Washington's rules to circumstances of today.
On the Jim Lehrer NewsHour , Richard Brookhiser, who has written a book called Founding Father , said that what George Washington had done was to create "a new nation and a new people."
Presidents get into the most trouble not when they behave like intellectuals but when they delegate crucial brainwork to "intellectuals on tap," as Brookhiser calls them.
To which Brookhiser gruesomely adds, in his own edition, "A rule often flouted by rap singers and pitchers ." Washington's Rule No.
To which Brookhiser adds, "Don't carry a boom box either ." And the embarrassments pile up, one upon the other, and the patriotic reader wilts in his chair, and Washington ends up too ludicrous for words.
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