Washington: A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Paperback - 2011
by Ron Chernow
"The best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington ever written." -Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books
Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other onevolume life of George Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his adventurous early years, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Continental Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president. In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow shatters forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional figure and brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods.
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Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow 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.
“Superb… the best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington ever written.” –Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books
“A truly gripping biography of George Washington... I can’t recommend it highly enough—as history, as epic, and, not least, as entertainment. It’s as luxuriantly pleasurable as one of those great big sprawling, sweeping Victorian novels.” –Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
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- Title Washington: A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- Author Ron Chernow
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 928
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Books, East Rutherford, NJ, U.S.A.
- Date 2011-09-27
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780143119968 / 0143119966
- Weight 2.4 lbs (1.09 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6 x 1.9 in (23.37 x 15.24 x 4.83 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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- Chronological Period: 18th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Presidents - United States, United States - History - 1783-1815
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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