Washington: the Indispensable Man — James Thomas Flexner

The Washington on these pages is no marble statue or picture on a dollar bill. He is a youth forces to earn his way in the wilderness to gain entry to a world of privelege. A young war hero secretly brooding over the costly errors of his inexperience. An honorably husband deeply in love with a woman not his wife. A World weary man longing for privacy yet virtually forced to take the presidency. A slave owner who grew to despice slavery. A noble, sometimes flawed, and always imposing human being whom we come at last to know as he really was.