Washington : A Life

English

ISBN: 0143119966

EAN: 9780143119968

Category: Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads of State/History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800)/Biography & Autobiography / Military/History / United States / General/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 09/24/2011

Age Range: 18-null

Synopsis: TRULY MAGNIGICIENT . . . [A] WELL-RESEARCHED, WELL-WRITTEN, AND ABSOLUTELY DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY.- ANDREW ROBERTS, THE WALL STREET JOURNALCelebrated 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 Americas 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 BooksNothing short of phenomenal . . . never before has Washington been rendered so tangibly in such a smart, tenaciously researched volume as Chernows opus . . . a riveting read.- Douglas Brinkly, Los Angeles Times I cant recommend it highly enough-as history, as epic, and, not least, as entertainment. Its 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

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Washington : A Life

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Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 1.99 inches

Width: 6.1 inches

Length: 9.26 inches

Weight: 39.12 oz

Pages: 928