By Peter Hannaford.  ISBN 188459223-6.  Copyright 1999.  Hardcover with 180 pages.

This vivid portrait in words is of the man who--more than any other--brought the country into the world. What they say about him is often controversial, often unexpected. This collection includes George Washington's contemporaries as well as famous American from the decades between now and then, and finally by well-known modern-day Americans.