Washington’s Revolution: The Making of America’s First Chief

Specializing in Washington’s early years, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Robert Middlekauff penetrates his mystique, revealing his all-too-human fears, values, and passions. Wealthy in psychological element relating to Washington’s temperament, idiosyncrasies, and experiences, this guide exhibits a self-conscious Washington who grew in confidence and expertise as a younger soldier, businessman, and Virginia gentleman, and who was reworked right into a patriot by the revolutionary ferment of the 1760s and ’70s. Middlekauff makes clear that Washington was on the coronary heart of not simply the revolution’s course and consequence but in addition the success of the nation it produced. 
This vivid, insightful new account of the youth that formed a callow George Washington into a unprecedented chief is an indispensable guide for actually understanding one in all America’s nice figures.