Washington: A Life

From the creator of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Occasions bestselling biography that impressed the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the primary president of america.

Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

“Really magnificent . . . [a] well-researched, well-written and completely definitive biography” —Andrew Roberts, The Wall Road Journal

“Till lately, I’d by no means believed that there might be such a factor as a really gripping biography of George Washington . . . Properly, I used to be incorrect. I can’t advocate it extremely sufficient—as historical past, as epic, and, not least, as leisure.” —Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker

Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow offers a richly nuanced portrait of the daddy of our nation and the primary president of america. With a breadth and depth matched by no different one quantity biography of George Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader via his adventurous early years, his heroic exploits with the Continental Military through the Revolutionary Warfare, his presiding over the Constitutional Conference, and his magnificent efficiency as America’s first president. On this groundbreaking work, based mostly on huge analysis, Chernow shatters eternally the stereotype of George Washington as a stolid, unemotional determine and brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and plenty of moods.

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s smash Broadway musical Hamilton has sparked new curiosity within the Revolutionary Warfare and the Founding Fathers. Along with Alexander Hamilton, the manufacturing additionally options George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Aaron Burr, Lafayette, and plenty of extra.