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Pulitzer Award, Biography/Autobiography, 2011 From National E book Award success 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 country. Which has a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply paced narrative provides the listener through his stressed boyhood, his precocious feats in the People from france and Indian Warfare, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding above the Constitutional Convention, and his spectacular performance as America's first president. Despite the reverence his name inspires, Washington remains a lifeless waxwork for many Americans, valuable but boring. A laconic man of granite self-control, he often arouses more respect than affection. In this particular groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow dashes forever the stereotype of an stolid, unemotional man. A strapping six legs, Washington was a celebrated horseman, chic dancer, and tireless hunter, with a fiercely guarded psychological life. Chernow brings to vivid life a dashing, keen man of fiery views and many moods. Probing his private life, he explores his fraught marriage along with his crusty mom, his vibrant infatuation with the wedded Sally Fairfax, and his often conflicted feelings toward his implemented children and grandchildren. He also provides a lavishly detailed portrait of his matrimony to Martha and his complicated action as a slave grasp. At the same time, Washington is an astute and astonishing portrait of an canny political genius who recognized how to inspire people. Not only did Washington gather around himself the most important figures of this, including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, but he also brilliantly orchestrated their activities to condition the new authorities, define the parting of powers, and establish the office of the presidency.
