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Jan 5, 2010 · 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 and Indian Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention and his ...
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Jan 13, 2011 · The Paragon. Washington: A Life. By Ron Chernow. (Penguin, 904 pp., $40) Modern biographers have sought to rescue George Washington from his monumental stature by revealing a lively and conflicted ...
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Jan 27, 2013 · 53. "Washington: A Life" is acclaimed author and historian Ron Chernow's most recent book, for which he received a 2011 Pulitzer Prize. He has also written biographies on John D. Rockefeller, Sr. and Alexander Hamilton and is particularly well-known for his inaugural book "The House of Morgan." This is the longest single-volume biography on ...
Sep 27, 2011 · Washington: A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner) Paperback – September 27, 2011. by Ron Chernow (Author) 4.7 7,936 ratings. See all formats and editions. 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 United States.
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Sep 30, 2010 · Accepting the inevitability of our nation, they remain perplexed by the pre-eminence of this man. Chernow is far subtler and far more sophisticated than Weems. Yet there is a familiar ring to his ...
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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 ...
Sep 27, 2010 · “Washington: A Life,” by Ron Chernow, draws on newly unearthed papers and other material to amplify and reshape perceptions of this leader’s importance.
