Although he was not born into a family of the upper gentry and did not attend college, he was not exactly a self-made man.
We now know more about him than his family, friends and other contemporaries did.įrom an early age, Washington was ambitious. Chernow draws on the 60 volumes of Washington’s letters and diaries as well as letters written to him, state papers from the period and the latest Washington scholarship. Now the brilliant biographer Ron Chernow, author of the National Book Award-winning The House of Morgan, demonstrates in his magnificently written, richly detailed and always compelling Washington: A Life just how and why his subject attained such an exalted status.
All of this was accomplished as he set precedents and dealt with opposition from Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and others. Even in his retirement, the Senate unanimously confirmed him as head of the new Army. He was unanimously chosen four straight times to lead: as commander in chief of the Continental Army as president of the Constitutional Convention and for two consecutive terms as president of the United States.
George Washington was the indispensable Founding Father.
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