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  1. Best George Washington Biographies (27 books)

    Best George Washington Biographies flag. All Votes Add Books To This List. 1: Washington: A Life by. Ron Chernow. 4.15 avg rating — 73,539 ratings. score: 1,296, and 13 people voted Want to Read saving… Want to Read; Currently Reading ...

  2. The 10 Best Books on President George Washington

    The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789 by Edward Larson. After leading the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War, George Washington shocked the world: he retired. In December 1783, General Washington, the most powerful man in the country, stepped down as Commander in Chief and returned to private life at Mount Vernon.

  3. The Best Biographies of George Washington

    But it is still one of the best single-volume biographies of Washington I read. (Full review here) - * The third biography of Washington I read was Ron Chernow's 2010 "Washington: A Life." This 2011 Pulitzer Prize winner is astonishingly fabulous. It is excellent in every respect and is by far the best single-volume Washington biography ...

  4. The Best George Washington Biographies

    The Best George Washington Biographies Despite leaving behind enough papers to fill 87 volumes (and counting), George Washington revealed little of himself as a man in his writing, leaving plenty of blank spaces for biographers to fill in according to their prejudices and predilections. And the public's appetite for scraps of gossip and ...

  5. 5 Essential Books on George Washington

    Below are five outstanding books for learning more about George Washington. 1. Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow. Ron Chernow won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of George Washington. Gordon Wood, an esteemed historian of the American Revolution, called Chernow's book, "The best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume ...

  6. 19 Best Books on George Washington (2022 Review)

    Here is our definitive guide of some of the best books on George Washington for your own curiosity and research: 1. George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution. Check Price on Amazon. This book by Ron Chernow is a complete biography of George Washington.

  7. Washington: A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    Washington: A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Paperback - September 27, 2011. by Ron Chernow (Author) 4.7 7,896 ratings. See all formats and editions. Pulitzer Prize Winner, 2011. From the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the ...

  8. Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

    However, among all biographies of George Washington, Chernow's appears to be the best loved and most highly-rated. Having plowed through 2,100 pages on Washington in the previous three weeks, the prospect of biting off another 800+ pages so soon with Chernow's biography was a bit daunting.

  9. Washington: A Life

    Washington: A Life is a biography of George Washington, the first president of the United States, written by American historian and biographer Ron Chernow and published in 2010. The book is a "one-volume, cradle-to-grave narrative" that attempts to provide a fresh portrait of Washington as "real, credible, and charismatic in the same way he was perceived by his contemporaries".

  10. What the History Books Won't Tell You About George Washington

    From 'You Never Forget Your First'. A new biography updates the dominant narrative of President George Washington. Narrated by Brittany Pressley. This book exists within that tradition ...

  11. George Washington

    George Washington (born February 22 [February 11, Old Style], 1732, Westmoreland county, Virginia [U.S.]—died December 14, 1799, Mount Vernon, Virginia, U.S.) was an American general and commander in chief of the colonial armies in the American Revolution (1775-83) and subsequently first president of the United States (1789-97).

  12. Meet the President: 8 Best George Washington Books

    George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution. America almost lost the Revolutionary War just after it started. After a failed battle in New York City in August 1776, General Washington and his troops retreated-but he had to devise a new strategy in order to stay in the war.

  13. The Real Washington at Last

    During the past half-century or so there have been several short biographies of Washington, the best being Marcus Cunliffe's George Washington: Man and Monument (1958) and Joseph J. Ellis's His Excellency: George Washington (2004). In the 1960s a vast publication project of all the Washington papers, including letters written to him, was ...

  14. 6 Best Biographies of George Washington

    4. Washington: A Life. From the countless books, it's regarded to be one of the best biographies of George Washington. Ron Chernow, the author of this book provided a rich portrait of the great leader, general, and personality. George Washington was the founder and first president of the USA.

  15. George Washington

    Gender: Male. Best Known For: George Washington, a Founding Father of the United States, led the Continental Army to victory in the Revolutionary War and was America's first president ...

  16. Washington: A Life

    Pulitzer Prize, Biography/Autobiography, 2011. From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington. In Washington: A Life celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the listener through his ...

  17. A New Book About George Washington Breaks All the Rules on How to Write

    Washington biographies need to be very different, going forward. And I hope that that is a contribution that I've made, that it is the start of change. ... Billy Lee is Washington's best ...

  18. George Washington's Life · George Washington's Mount Vernon

    Lawrence Washington (Mount Vernon Ladies' Association) George Washington was born at his family's plantation on Popes Creekin Westmoreland County, Virginia, on February 22, 1732, to Augustineand Mary Ball Washington. George's father was a leading planter in the area and served as a justice of the county court. Augustine Washington's first wife ...

  19. President George Washington: Calm, Cool, and Collected Commander in Chief

    Feb. 22, 1732 George Washington is born in a modest house at Popes Creek, Westmoreland County, Virginia. His father, Augustine, is a plantation owner who dies when George is 11. June 15, 1775 ...

  20. George Washington Biography

    George Washington Biography. George Washington, the first American general, president, and national hero was born in rural colonial Virginia on February 22, 1732. ... He did his best to carry out the wounded General Braddock's orders for the remainder of the tragic battle. Although the battle was a horrific loss for the British forces ...

  21. My favorite books about or around George Washington

    Alexis Coe is a presidential historian and the New York Times bestselling author of You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington, which was also Audible's best history book of 2020 and Barnes and Nobel's nonfiction Book of the Month. She was a producer and appeared in Doris Kearns Goodwin's Washington series on the History Channel.

  22. 50 Best Biographies of All Time

    The 50 Best Biographies of All Time. Think you know the full and complete story about George Washington, Steve Jobs, or Joan of Arc? Think again. By Adam Morgan Published: Dec 01, 2022 6:00 AM EST.

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    From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington. ... The Warburgs, won the Eccles Prize as the Best Business Book of 1993. His biography of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., Titan, was a national bestseller and a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist. Customer reviews. 4.7 out of 5 stars . 4.7 out of 5 ...

  24. Five times Biden has injected fiction into his biography

    Five times Biden has injected fiction into his biography. By Haisten Willis. April 22, 2024 7:00 am. . One consistent aspect of President Joe Biden 's time in the White House has been his ...

  25. The 33 best things to do in D.C. this weekend and next week

    and. Chris Kelly. Updated May 2, 2024 at 9:40 a.m. EDT. The annual Running of the Chihuahuas at the Wharf features dozens of Chihuahuas racing down a 60-foot track while crowds of spectators cheer ...

  26. The 6 best things to do with kids in the D.C. area this weekend

    The 6 best things to do with kids in the D.C. area this weekend. By Fritz Hahn. May 2, 2024 at 1:41 p.m. EDT. The Running of the Chihuahuas is a Cinco de Mayo tradition at the Wharf. (The Wharf ...

  27. Why Denzel Washington Once Told A Co-Star Losing An Oscar Is ...

    Apart from his two Academy Award wins and nod for Cry Freedom, Washington has been nominated for Best Actor Oscars for 1992's Malcolm X, 1999's The Hurricane, 2012's Flight, 2017's Fences ...

  28. Washington Post paperback bestsellers

    Washington Post paperback bestsellers. By Becky Meloan. May 1, 2024 at 9:00 a.m. EDT ... $35). By Amy Tan. The best-selling novelist's essays and sketches document the birds inhabiting the land ...

  29. 'Consensus' Draft Grades: Commanders' Class Ranks Among League's Best

    The results show that the Commanders had the fourth-best draft in the league with a "GPA" of 3.72. The only teams with a higher GPA than Washington were the Philadelphia Eagles (3.84), Chicago ...

  30. Perspective

    The queen, who owned a great many works by Poussin, was told of Sir Anthony Blunt's treachery in 1964 but deemed it in the national interest to remain discreet about it. So the rest of the world ...