He also provides a lavishly detailed portrait of his marriage to Martha and his complex behavior as a slave master.Īt the same time, Washington is an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people. 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.
Chernow brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods.
A strapping six feet, Washington was a celebrated horseman, elegant dancer, and tireless hunter, with a fiercely guarded emotional life. In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow dashes forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man. 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 reader 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.ĭespite the reverence his name inspires, Washington remains a lifeless waxwork for many Americans, worthy but dull. In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. No previous owner or remainder marks.Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a New York Times Bestseller, a landmark biography of George Washington. NEAR FINE OVERALL CONDITION! A few pinpricks to front cover slight edgewear and a verticle scuff line to rear panel of the clean bright unclipped dust jacket. He won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and the 2011 American History Book Prize for this 2010 book Washington: A Life. He has written bestselling historical non-fiction novels. Item #8379 ISBN: 9781594202667 Ronald Chernow (born 1949) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American writer, journalist, historian, and biographer. of glossy B&W reproductions of early paintings of Washington and his associates, archival mylar-protected pictorial dust jacket (unclipped $40 on front flap) with detail in color from "Washington Before Yorktown" astride a horse painted by Rembrandt Peale, Index, xxi, + 904 pages + About the Author. Thick 8vo, green quarter cloth with gilt lettering over light yellow boards with "RC" stamped in gold on front cover, illustrated with B&W frontispiece and 6 similar images of Washington as Section headings plus 16 pp.
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