From the author ofAlexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes agripping portrait of the first president of the United States.

Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography

Truly magnificent . . . [a] well-researched, well-written and absolutely definitive biographyAndrew Roberts,The Wall Street Journal

Until recently, Id never believed that there could be such a thing asa truly gripping biography of George Washington . . .Well, I was wrong. I cant recommend it highly enoughas history, as epic, and, not least, as entertainment.Hendrik Hertzberg,The New Yorker

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.