Ron Chernow is the bestselling and prize-winning author of seven previous books and the recipient of the 2015 National Humanities Medal. His first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award, Washington: A Life won the Pulitzer Prize for Biography, and Alexander Hamilton—the inspiration for the Broadway musical—won the George Washington Book Prize. He has twice been a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and is one of only three living biographers to have won the Gold Medal for Biography of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
“Truly magnificent . . . [a] well-researched, well-written and
absolutely definitive biography” —Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street
Journal
“Superb . . . the best, most comprehensive, and most balanced
single-volume biography of Washington ever written. [Chernow’s]
understanding of human nature is extraordinary and that is what
makes his biography so powerful.” —Gordon S. Wood, The New York
Review of Books
“Chernow displays a breadth of knowledge about Washington that is
nothing short of phenomenal… never before has Washington been
rendered so tangibly in such a smart, tenaciously researched volume
as Chernow's opus . . . a riveting read . . .” —Douglas Brinkley,
The Los Angeles Times
“Until recently, I’d never believed that there could be such a
thing as a truly gripping biography of George Washington . . .
Well, I was wrong. Ron Chernow’s huge (900 pages) Washington: A
Life, which I’ve just finished, does all that and more. I can’t
recommend it highly enough—as history, as epic, and, not least, as
entertainment. It’s as luxuriantly pleasurable as one of those
great big sprawling, sweeping Victorian novels.” —Hendrik
Hertzberg, The New Yorker
“[Ron Chernow] has done justice to the solid flesh, the human
frailty and the dental miseries of his subject—and also to his
immense historical importance . . . This is a magnificently fair,
full-scale biography.” —The Economist
"Truly magnificent . . . [a] well-researched, well-written and
absolutely definitive biography" -Andrew Roberts, The Wall
Street Journal
"Superb . . . the best, most comprehensive, and most balanced
single-volume biography of Washington ever written. [Chernow's]
understanding of human nature is extraordinary and that is what
makes his biography so powerful." -Gordon S. Wood, The New
York Review of Books
"Chernow displays a breadth of knowledge about Washington that is
nothing short of phenomenal... never before has Washington been
rendered so tangibly in such a smart, tenaciously researched volume
as Chernow's opus . . . a riveting read . . ." -Douglas
Brinkley, The Los Angeles Times
"Until recently, I'd never believed that there could be such a
thing as a truly gripping biography of George Washington . . .
Well, I was wrong. Ron Chernow's huge (900 pages) Washington: A
Life, which I've just finished, does all that and more. I can't
recommend it highly enough-as history, as epic, and, not least, as
entertainment. It's as luxuriantly pleasurable as one of those
great big sprawling, sweeping Victorian novels." -Hendrik
Hertzberg, The New Yorker
"[Ron Chernow] has done justice to the solid flesh, the human
frailty and the dental miseries of his subject-and also to his
immense historical importance . . . This is a magnificently fair,
full-scale biography." -The
Economist
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