Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

By Ron Chernow. Published by Penguin Books, 2010. Paperback, 6 x 9 1/4, 904 pages, index, notes, bibliography, illustrations. Minor wear, very fine to excellent condition. This magnificent study of the life of Washington won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize. A must read for anyone interested in George Washington!

Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow, winner of the 2015 National Humanities Medal, provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president of the United States. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one volume biography of George Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his adventurous early years, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president. In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow shatters forever the stereotype of George Washington as a stolid, unemotional figure and brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods. (Book Review)