$44.75
- Paperback
928 pages
- Release Date
1 December 2011
Summary
‘TRULY MAGNIGICIENT … A WELL-RESEARCHED, WELL-WRITTEN, AND ABSOLUTELY DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY.’ - ANDREW ROBERTS, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
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 reader through his adventurous early years, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Continenta…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780143119968 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0143119966 |
| Author: | Ron Chernow |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 928 |
| Release Date: | 1 December 2011 |
| Weight: | 1.06kg |
| Dimensions: | 50mm x 156mm x 235mm |
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Critics Review
“Truly magnificent … [a] well-researched, well-written and absolutely definitive biography” —Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal
“Superb … the best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington ever written. [Chernow’s] understanding of human nature is extraordinary and that is what makes his biography so powerful.” —Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books
“Chernow displays a breadth of knowledge about Washington that is nothing short of phenomenal… never before has Washington been rendered so tangibly in such a smart, tenaciously researched volume as Chernow’s opus … a riveting read …” —Douglas Brinkley, The Los Angeles Times
“Until recently, I’d never believed that there could be such a thing as a truly gripping biography of George Washington … Well, I was wrong. Ron Chernow’s huge (900 pages) Washington: A Life, which I’ve just finished, does all that and more. I can’t recommend it highly enough—as history, as epic, and, not least, as entertainment. It’s as luxuriantly pleasurable as one of those great big sprawling, sweeping Victorian novels.” —Hendrik Hertzberg, The New Yorker
“[Ron Chernow] has done justice to the solid flesh, the human frailty and the dental miseries of his subject—and also to his immense historical importance … This is a magnificently fair, full-scale biography.” —The Economist
Ron Chernow
Ron Chernow is the bestselling and prize-winning author of seven previous books and the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award, Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Alexander Hamilton—the inspiration for the Broadway musical—won the George Washington Book Prize. He has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and is one of only three living biographers to have won the Gold Medal for Biography of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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