The Electrate Professor

Listening to Joseph J. Ellis's His Excellency George Washington on CD-ROM. I noticed in the first few pages that he uses two geographic metaphors to describe Washington. First, in the preface, Washington is compared to the landscape of the moon (distance, alien, mysterious) and then in the first chapter, titled "Interior Regions," his "interior regions" are directly compared to the interior regions of the country in which he served during the French & Indian War. These are striking and startling metaphors which I'm sure hold some meaning for the "making" of history.