Washington A Life. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography 2011

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