By Ron Chernow.  ISBN 978-1-59420-266-7. Copyright 2010.  Hardcover with 904 pages including notes, bibliography, and index.  

2011 Pulitzer Prize Winner for Biography.

Award winning 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 troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian War, his expansion of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America’s first president. 

A Mount Vernon bookplate, signed by the author, will be included with your purchase.