George Washington: The Man Behind the Myths

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Summary: Impressive Study of the Founding Father
Review: This book is excellent first and foremost because it brings together almost all of the pictorial representations of George Washington ever produced. The book includes the artwork of Gilbert Stuart, John Wollaston, Jean Leon Gerome Ferris, Charles Willson Peale, and many others in addition to engravings. This book also contains a vast text which is lengthy by necessity enabling the book to cover the entirety of Washington's life and includes the development of historical thought in the years since Washington's death. The book also includes an enormous amount of interesting information on Martha Custis and her children and other family relations. Whether a person is a devoted researcher of George Washington himself or the colonial period or the American Revolution years or all of the above, this book makes an excellent addition.