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Author:
Alexis Coe
Publisher:
Viking
Date:
February 4, 2020
Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our firstâand finds he is not quite the man we remember.
What The Reviewers Say
Coe moves past the well-worn tropes we’ve come to associate with George Washington. Her nuanced portrait paints a man torn between service to country and family.
In her form-shattering and myth-crushing book...Alexis Coe does more than deal with the low-hanging fruit of the Washington cherry tree. She provides a fresh look at the first president and, just as important, at the first precedents he set.
No one would describe Alexis Coe’s unconventional biography of conventional biographical subject George Washington as boring.
... a brisk and uncommonly brief biography of Washington that showcases both heroics and shortcomings, in the first president and in those who surrounded him, in public and in private.
