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P26 That this abominable childhood produced such a strong, productive, self-reliant human being—that this fatherless adolescent could have ended up a founding father of the country he had not yet even seen—seems a little short of miraculous. Because he maintains perfect silence about his unspeakable past, never exploiting it to puff his later successes, it was impossible for his contemporaries to comprehend the excep

P.26 That this abominable childhood produced such a strong, productive, self-reliant human being—that this fatherless adolescent could have ended up a founding father of the country he had not yet even seen—seems a little short of miraculous. Because he maintains perfect silence about his unspeakable past…it was impossible for his contemporaries to comprehend the exceptional nature of his personal triumph.

P. 26 That this abominable childhood produced such a strong, productive, self-reliant human being—that this fatherless adolescent could have ended up a founding father of the country he had not yet even seen—seems a little short of miraculous. Because he maintains perfect silence about his unspeakable past…it was impossible for his contemporaries to comprehend the exceptional nature of his personal triumph.