The release date for the English version of 'Washington: A Life' by
Ron Chernow is Oct 2010. If you enjoy this novel, it is available for buy as a paperback from Barnes & Noble or Indigo, as an ebook on the Amazon Kindle store, or as an audiobook on Audible.
The renowned Ron Chernow offers a very complex portrayal of the founding father of the United States. Washington's life is told in one volume, covering a vast amount of ground that no other one-volume biography can match. The reader is taken through his difficult upbringing, his early successes in the French and Indian Wars, his founding of Mount Vernon, his valiant actions with the Continental Army, his leadership of the Constitutional Convention, and his outstanding tenure as the country's first president.
Washington, for all the respect his name arouses, is still to many readers a wax sculpture, noble but uninteresting, a quiet man of extraordinary restraint. However, Chernow permanently alters the uninspired cliché in this ground-breaking masterpiece. Washington is portrayed by him as a strong, well-known horseman, graceful dancer, and devoted hunter who fiercely yet intriguingly guarded his personal life. Washington not only gathered the leading lights of the day, such as John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and Alexander Hamilton, but he also planned their activities to support the realization of his ideas for the new federal government, which included defining the division of powers and creating the office of the presidency.
Ron Chernow takes us on a thrilling tour through each pivotal moment in the formation of the United States of America. One of the best writers and historians in America has produced a masterful masterpiece with this one.