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"Freeman's treatment of Washington as a Commander in Chief is virtually definitive" ( The New York Times Book Review ). Washington is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and military historian Douglas Southall Freeman won his second Pulitzer Prize for his new and dramatic reexamination of George Washington. For years biographies had gone from idolatry to muckraking in their depictions of this somewhat marbleized Founding Father. Freeman's new interpretation was a fresh step, making Washington a living, breathing individual, flawed but heroic. An able commander who defeated the British Empire against incredible odds, Washington proved to be just as adept at wielding political power, and adroitly steered our new loosely called nation through the first stormy years of our unproven federal stewardship and the first two presidential administrations. Here with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Kammen, who puts the writing and publication of Washington into perspective, and an afterword by Pulitzer Prize winner Dumas Malone, who explains the travails of Freeman's grinding work, Washington is

Author

Douglas Southall Freeman

Publisher

Scribner

Published

1968

Language

EN

ISBN

9781439105337

Subjects

History, Biography, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.29 / 5 (225 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13