George Washington: An Especially Insightful Biography

George Washington was larger than life and often called the "indispensable man". This is one of the finer single volume biographies of Washington, making ample use of his letters and writings, giving us a rich portrait of the man behind the legend.

The tone of the book is "matter of fact" and seemingly free of unsubstantiated opinion and it manages to cover most of the main events of Washington's life.

Rather than being a dry, fact-based account of Washington's life, Thayer's biography has in...