Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow

Washington: A Life

Ron Chernow

930 pages first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative reflective slow-paced

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The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French a...

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challenging 38%
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