Biography of George Washington. Part of my plan to learn American History and steal it for fiction.
This was a very enjoyable book. Washington comes across as an ambitious, but not self-serving, man. Not a particularly good general, and sometimes too slow to realize he could no longer trust former friends.
I know very little American history, having forgotten most of what I was supposed to learn in my weird intro course in college and my really bad AP course in high school. So I’m slowly reading books. A while back I listened to a tape of Isaacson’s biography of Benjamin Franklin, which made me want to read a biography of John Adams (in particular, the McCullough one). Next up, however, is Ellis’s Founding Brothers, which I listened to the beginning of in June, and bought (in paper form) a few weeks ago. Also on the list is Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton. From what I’ve read so far, Hamilton makes a great villain.