Features & Benefits
- Washington's rise was a self-reinvention of the highest level
- A third son of a Virginia planter, he had ruined his own military career in his mid-20s.
- By his mid-40s, he had evolved into an unassailable leader chosen as commander in chief of the Continental Army
- He was unanimously elected the nation's first president by his mid-50s.
- Author David O. Stewart unveils the political education that made Washington a master politician
- Washington perfected the art of governing and service, earned trust, and built bridges