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Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced

portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth

matched by no other onevolume life of George Washington, this

crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his adventurous

early years, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his

presiding over the Continental Convention, and his magnificent

performance as America's first president. In this groundbreaking

work, based on massive research, Chernow shatters forever the

stereotype of a stolid, unemotional figure and brings to vivid life

a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods.

AUTHOR'S NOTE

PRELUDE：The Portrait Arfist

PART ONE

ONE：A Short—Lived Family

TW0：Fortune’S Favorite

THREE：Wilderness Mission

FOUR：Bloodbath

FIVE：Shades of Death

SIX：The Soul of an Army

SEVEN：A Votary to Love

EIGHT：Darling of a Grateful Country

PART TW0

NINE：The Man of Mode

TEN：A Certain Species of Propert}

ELEVEN：The Prodigy

TWELVE：Providence

THIRTEEN：A Wbrld of His Own

FOURTEEN：The Asiatic Prince

FIFTEEN：A Shock of Electricity

……

Ron Chernow is the prize-winning author of five

previous books, including Alexander Hamilton, The House of

Morgan, and Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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On one occasion that winter, when an officer requested permission toarrest a spy, Washington shrewdly suggested that he woo the spy with a dinmer invitation, then leave nearby, as if by sheer negligence, a sheet pegging the Continental Army's strength at a grossly exaggerated number. It was one of manyways that Washington misled the enemyto conceal his own weakness.

Washington was an excellent host of a certain sort. He was congenial without being deeply personal, friendly without being familiar, and perfected a cool sociability that distanced him from people even as it invited them closer. He never felt the urge to impress people. As John Marshall wrote, “He had no pretensions to that vivacity which fascinates, and to that wit which dazzles.” He knew the value of silence, largely kept opinions to himself, and seldom committed a faux pas.

Very concerned with winning the approval of others, Washington tended his image with extreme care, suggesting a self-conscious insecurity about how people perceived him. Peter Henriques has commented on Washington’s “intense fear of failure” and the hundreds of times the word approbation crops up in his letters. Sin...

George had long hoped to emulate his admired brother, but now he would almost graft his life onto Lawrence’s, as if George would extend his brother’s short life and fulfill its golden promise.

Every misfortune only pushed him further along his desired path. Most providential of all for him was that Lawrence Washington had expired on the eve of the French and Indian War, a conflict in which George’s newfound status as district adjutant would place him squarely at the forefront of a thunderous global confrontation.

Thomas Jefferson, who was to serve with Washington and Franklin in the Continental Congress, spotted their economical approach to power. “I never heard either of them speak ten minutes at a time, nor to any but the main point,” he later said of the two statesmen. “They laid their shoulders to the great points, knowing that the little ones would follow of themselves.”

In mid-May Washington expressed dismay to Dinwiddie over a decision by the House of Burgesses to fix their pay at a steep discount to royal British salaries, stating that he would rather serve without pay than suffer this indignity: “But let me serve voluntarily. Then I will, with the greatest pleasure in life, devote my services to the expedition without any other reward than the satisfaction of my country. But to be slaving dangerously for the shadow of pay through woods, rocks, mountains—I would rather prefer the great toil of a daily laborer and dig for a maintenance . . . than serve upon such ignoble terms.”9 From this letter, one can see how wholly Washington had imbibed the aristocratic ethos of the Fairfax family, since his own income scarcely entitled him to such grand, self-sacri...

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*Starred Review* With so much that can be said—and said

positively—about this magisterial biography, it is difficult not to

write a review as long as the book itself. Given the distinction of

the author, who wrote, among other single and collective

biographies, the glowingly reviewed Alexander Hamilton (2004),

readers can safely assume from the outset that what lies ahead of

them is a vastly enlightening, overwhelmingly engaging treatment of

a great man. The subject of the book needs only, by way of

identification, the one word that Chernow uses as his title:

Washington. Another book on Washington? is a question rendered

pointless by this one, which happens to be the author’s

masterpiece. Definitive Washington is the point and effect of this

biography. Our first president is thought of as more marble statue

than living, hurting, loving human; however, Chernow’s Washington

stands not in the opposite corner as hot-blooded and animated.

Washington spent a lifetime practicing control of his passions and

emotions; his innate virtues, undenied and even celebrated here,

were sharpened and focused by the man’s suppression of a natural

volatility. “His gift of silence” and of “inspired simplicity,” as

the author so aptly terms Washington’s strongest suits, supported

his consequent leadership as general and as president. --Brad

Hooper

书籍介绍

"The best, most comprehensive, and most balanced single-volume biography of Washington ever written." -Gordon S. Wood, The New York Review of Books Celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other onevolume life of George Washington, this crisply paced narrative carries the reader through his adventurous early years, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Continental Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president. In this groundbreaking work, based on massive research, Chernow shatters forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional figure and brings to vivid life a dashing, passionate man of fiery opinions and many moods.