To the reader who inherited a marble Washingtonโand wants the man of fire, calculation, and self-command underneath โ this is for you.**
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow**
Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography
From the author of *Alexander Hamilton*, a one-volume life of George Washington.
Chernow takes Washington from a troubled boyhood through the French and Indian War, the making of Mount Vernon, the Continental Army, the Constitutional Convention, and the first presidency. The aim is a portrait as real and charismatic as the one his contemporaries sawโnot the lifeless waxwork of later reverence.
A laconic man of granite self-control, Washington often draws more respect than affection. Chernow works against that stereotype: a celebrated horseman and dancer, a man of fierce opinions and a guarded inner life, a complicated husband and slaveholder, and a canny political genius who gathered Hamilton, Madison, Adams, and Jefferson and shaped the new federal government.
Based on massive archival research. A long book with a crisp pace.
Buy links
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- Author site: https://t.co/FitAuPagGN
About the author
Ron Chernow is the author of *The House of Morgan* (National Book Award), *Alexander Hamilton* (George Washington Book Prize; the book that inspired the musical), *Washington: A Life* (Pulitzer Prize), *Grant*, and *Mark Twain*. He received the National Humanities Medal in 2015.
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