Washington: A Life

"A Washington For Our Time" according to Eileen Pollock. Why do we need another biography of George Washington? The four volume Flexner biography was published A Washington For Our Time Eileen Pollock Why do we need another biography of George Washington? The four volume Flexner biography was published 40 years ago, and since then 60 newly edited volumes of Washington letters and diaries have been published, which Chernow has read closely. He has combed the important multi-volume biographies and reviewed the shorter more recent books. The biblio. 0 years ago, and since then 60 newly edited volumes of Washington letters and diaries have been published, which Chernow has read closely. He has combed the important multi-volume biographies and reviewed the shorter more recent books. The biblio. Chernow's "Washington" - a Superlative Achievement ! Hannibal What a historian Ron Chernow is! - I know, a RICH one thanks to his dazzling "Alexander Hamilton," biography, but much as I was taken with that (2 years before the Broadway musical, I hasten to add), I approached his "Washington" bio with some trepidation due to my memory as a history major at Columbia College a half-century ago, from which I recal. George Washington — Father of the United States! Dr. Miguel A. Faria Excellent biographies of the Founding Fathers have been published in the last several decades. With these books, the nation seems to yearn for moral and political guidance from America's founders — i.e., through their words, lives, and actions, as recounted in the pages of history. It seems these tomes are needed to help steer the presently i

Pulitzer Prize, Biography/Autobiography, 2011From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington. He also provides a lavishly detailed portrait of his marriage to Martha and his complex behavior as a slave master. Probing his private life, he explores his fraught relationship with his crusty mother, his youthful infatuation with the married Sally Fairfax, and his often conflicted feelings toward his adopted children and grandchildren. A laconic man of granite self-control, he often arouses more respect than affection. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the listener through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian War, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president. Not only did Washington gather around himself the foremost figures of the age, including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, but he also brilliantly orchestrated their actions to shape the new federal government, define the separation of powers, and establish the office of the presidency.. D