Washington: A Life

Version: Unabridged (Abridged version available here)
Author: Ron Chernow
Narrator: Edward Herrmann
Genres: Biographies, United States
Publisher: Penguin Audiobooks
Published In: October 2010
# of Units: 33 CDs
Length: 35 hours
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Overview

From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of George Washington.

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Revisionist History

Written by Anonymous from Prunedale, CA on February 14th, 2013

  • Book Rating: 4/5

If you are ordering this book, you clearly have a taste for history as this 33 CD set is no small undertaking. It is a very thorough account of GW and the surrounding times. It was a really excellent primer for Early-American History. I gave it four stars because it is so thorough and well written however, the author likes to look at that period through the critical eye of modern culture, to the point of becoming preachy and irritating. This behavior is felt most strongly in the judging of GW and his relationship with slavery. He also clearly has no love for the Adamses. If it were not for the preaching on those two issues, it was a very enjoyable (if long) account of the life and times of our first president.

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Author Details

Author Details

Chernow, Ron

Ron Chernow's first book, The House of Morgan, won the National Book Award and the Ambassador Award for the year's best study of American culture. His second book, The Warburgs, won the Eccles Prize as the Best Business Book of 1993 and was also selected by the American Library Association as one of that year's best nonfiction books. In reviewing his recent collection of essays, The Death of the Banker, The New York Times called the author "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen in decades and chose the paperback original as one of the year's Notable Books.