New York: The Penguin Press. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 2010. 1st Edition; 1st Printing. Hardcover. 1594202664 . Hardcover with dustjacket, first printing as indicated by the publisher's "1" in the number line on copyright page, the jacket is price-clipped, otherwise book and jacket are in AS NEW condition and a professional (removable) mylar cover is included, "a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation" ; 904 pages .

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Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation and the first president of the United States. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one volume biography of George Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his adventurous early years, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president. In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow shatters forever the stereotype of George Washington as a stolid, unemotional figure and brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods. “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.” –Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books “A truly gripping biography of George Washington... 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

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Bookseller: Mainly Books (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 055185
Title: Washington: A Life
Author: Chernow, Ron
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
Edition: 1st Edition; 1st Printing
ISBN 10: 1594202664
ISBN 13: 9781594202667
Publisher: The Penguin Press
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2010
Keywords: 1594202664, Biography, AMERICAN History
Bookseller catalogs: U.S. Presidents; U. S. Presidents;

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