Pub Date: November 8, 2005
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2006272139
Lexile Code: 1390
Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product, Table of Contents
Target Age Group: NA to NA
Physical Info: 0.78" H x 7.99" L x 5.17" W ( 0.79 lbs) 352 pages
BISAC Categories:
Biography and Autobiography | Historical | Presidents and Heads of State | History | United States | Revolutionary Period 17751800
Description: The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Founding Brothers" delivers a landmark biography that brings to life in all his complexity the most important and perhaps least understood figure in American history--George Washington. photos. High school & older.
Review Quotes:
" [Ellis has done it again. This is an important and challenging work: beautifully written, lively, serious and engaging." --The Boston Globe
"Absorbing. . . . An incisive portrait [that] eloquently conveys the magnitude of Washington's accomplishments." --The New York Times
"Absolutely fascinating. . . . Underscores how extraordinary Washington's accomplishments really were." --The Christian Science Monitor
"Lively and engaging. . . . An accessible portrait. . . . Ellis writes simply but eloquently. His prose is lucid, graceful and witty, his book is hard to put down. . . . Should be required reading." --Los Angeles Times Book Review