About the Author

James Thomas Flexner is a National Book Award Laureate; recipient of a special Pulitzer Prize Citation; winner of the Society of American Historians' Parkman Prize, the gold medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for "Eminence in Biography." James Thomas Flexner has won a Special Pulitzer Prize Citation, a National Book Award, and a Christopher's Award for his four-volume biography, Washignton: An Indispensable Man. A foremost man of letters, Flexner has written with equal distinction in the fields of American history, biography and art.

Reviews

"Flexner's great achievement is that he has written a life that even the most rabid Jeffersonian can applaud. Admiring and critical at the same time, Flexner scrutinizes his subject's early years to arrive at a daring but convincing portrait... Each generation requires its own biographies of history's major figures, but for the time being it is hard to see how Flexner's Hamilton could be improved." -Newsweek "Every welcome to a volume which is fully up to the standard of literary elegance, psychological penetration, and historical scholarship that Mr. Flexner's massive life of George Washington has led everyone to expect." -The Economist "This is an admirable book, thoroughly researched, and nicely written... Highly recommended for general collections." -Library Journal