Washington

‘TRULY MAGNIGICIENT . . . A WELL-RESEARCHED, WELL-WRITTEN, AND ABSOLUTELY DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY.’ – ANDREW ROBERTS, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of 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 book, based on massive research, Chernow shatters forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods. With a dramatic sweep worthy of its subject, Washington is a magisterial work from one of our most elegant storytellers. ‘The best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington ever written.’ – Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books ‘Nothing short of phenomenal . . . never before has Washington been rendered so tangibly in such a smart, tenaciously researched volume as Chernow’s opus . . . a riveting read.’ – Douglas Brinkly, Los Angeles Times ‘ I can’t recommend it highly enough-as history, as epic, and, not least, as entertainment. It’s a luxuriantly pleasurable as one of those great big sprawling, sweeping Victorian novels.’ – Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker ‘ Ron Chernow has done justice to this solid flesh, the human frailty, and the dental miseries of his subject-and also to his immense historical importance . . . This is a magnificently fair, full-scale biography.’ – The Economist

Author Biography

Ron Chernow is the bestselling and prize-winning author of seven previous books and the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award, Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Alexander Hamilton—the inspiration for the Broadway musical—won the George Washington Book Prize. He has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and is one of only three living biographers to have won the Gold Medal for Biography of the Ameri­can Academy of Arts and Letters.