Today's indispensable man / Forrest McDonald -- "The western Cincinnatus" : Washington as farmer and soldier / Bruce S. Thornton and Victor Davis Hanson -- General Washington and the military strategy of the Revolution / Mackubin Owens -- George Washington and the standing oak / William B. Allen -- Washington and the origins of presidential power / Mark J. Rozell -- Foreign policy and the first commander in chief / Ryan J. Barilleaux -- The symbolic dimensions of the first presidency / Gary L. Gregg II -- Washington's farewell address and the form of the American regime / Virginia L. Arbery -- Making citizens : George Washington and the American character / Matthew Spalding -- "Our illustrious Washington" : the American imaging of George Washington / Mark Thistlethwaite -- George Washington and the religious impulse / John G. West, Jr. -- Eulogy on Washington : "First in the hearts of his countrymen" / John Marshall ; delivered December 26, 1799 by Representative Richard Henry Lee -- Afterword : the forgotten character of George Washington / Richard Brookhiser.