George Washington

This biography follows George Washington from his Virginia youth and early military service in the Ohio country through command of the Continental Army, the Constitutional Convention, and two terms as president. Ellis treats the public career and the private man together: land, marriage, slaveholding at Mount Vernon, ambition, and the carefully managed reputation. The narrative gives weight to the Revolutionary War years, the problems of a new federal government, and the Farewell Address. It is a political life rather than a day-by-day chronicle, aimed at how Washington acquired authority and why his contemporaries treated him as indispensable.

Three-quarter bound in dark green cloth, paper cover printed with a portrait in green tones. Dark brown slipcase.