This masterful work explores the Father of Our Country - sometimes an unpopular hero, a man of great contradictions, but always a towering historical figure, who remains, as Flexner writes in these pages, "a falliable human being made of flesh and blood and spirit - not a statue of marble and wood...a great and good man".

Recounts the first forty-three years of Washington's life and includes quotes from his letters, diaries, and documents.

Profiles Washington from his second term as president to his death, focusing on his struggles to unite the new republic.