Washington: A Life

 

by Ron Chernow

In Washington: A Life biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth & depth matched by no other one-volume life, this crisply paced narrative carries readers thru his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French & Indian War, his creation of Mt Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his ...more

Hardcover,                    927 pages

Published                      October 5th 2010 by Penguin Press (NYC et al.) (first published 2010)

original title                   Washington: A Life

ISBN                           1594202664 (ISBN13: 9781594202667)

edition language             English

url                                 http://www.worldcat.org/wcidentities/lccn-n88268242

literary awards

Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography (2011)