George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father (Softcover)

“George Washington: The Political Rise of America's Founding Father.” By David O. Stewart. ISBN: 9780451488985. Copyright 2021. Softcover 576 pages. This book was a finalist for the 2022 George Washington Prize. The George Washington Prize is one of the nation’s largest and most prestigious literary awards. Washington's rise constitutes one of the greatest self-reinventions in history. In his mid-twenties, this third son of a modest Virginia planter had ruined his own military career thanks to an outrageous ego. But by his mid-forties, that headstrong, unwise young man had evolved into an unassailable leader chosen as the commander in chief of the fledgling Continental Army. By his mid-fifties, he was unanimously elected the nation's first president. How did Washington emerge from the wilderness to become the central founder of the United States of America?In this remarkable new portrait, award-winning historian David O. Stewart unveils the political education that made Washington a ma