Between 19, Chernow published over sixty articles in national publications, including numerous cover stories. After graduating with honors from Yale College and Cambridge University with degrees in English Literature, he began a prolific career as a freelance journalist. Ron Chernow was born in 1949 in Brooklyn, New York. This is a magisterial work from one of America's foremost writers and historians. Ron Chernow takes us on a page-turning journey through all the formative events of America's founding.

Not only did Washington gather around himself the foremost figures of the age, including James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, and Thomas Jefferson, he orchestrated their actions to help realise his vision for the new federal government, define the separation of powers, and establish the office of the presidency. He portrays Washington as a strapping, celebrated horseman, elegant dancer and tireless hunter, who guarded his emotional life with intriguing ferocity. But in this groundbreaking work Chernow revises forever the uninspiring stereotype. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention and his magnificent performance as America's first president.ĭespite the reverence his name inspires Washington remains a waxwork to many readers, worthy but dull, a laconic man of remarkable self-control. The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America.

Washington by Ron Chernow