Back Bay Book Washington: The Indispensable Man, (Paperback)

from wyclif

This superior one-volume editon of Flexner's monumental four-volume biography of Washington is both well-written and researched. A fitting biography worthy of its subject, and as close as I've gotten recently to a Presidential page-turner.

from Jarratt

"Washington: The Indispensable Man" is full of great information. Based on the author's 4-volume set (!) this covers the main points of most of Washington's life. Unfortunately, I found a good bit of Flexner's writing to be oddly worded and somewhat stuffy. I'm all for not ending sentences in pre...

from tuckerresearch

An excellent one-volume abridgment of Flexner's old multivolume biography of Washington, updated here with a fine and comprehensive array of portraits, paintings, photographs of contemporary objects, full-color maps of battles, and primary source documents referenced in the text. Flexner's accoun...

from LisaMaria_C

In his bibliography in the back, Flexner divides published biographies of Washington into "three major categories--the historically sound, the goody-goody, and the debunking." Flexner's four volume biography of George Washington won a Pulitzer Prize citation and a National Book Award. This one vo...

from Katie_H

This was required reading for a history course that I was enrolled in a few years back, but I ended up dropping the course and never sold the texts back. It is an interesting and relatively short biography on George Washington; at 400 pages, it is MUCH shorter than Flexner's FOUR VOLUME long vers...