Analysis: ‘American Patriarch’ Tells George Washington’s Tale
As the United States marks its semiquincentennial, a new biography reminds us why George Washington was eulogized by “Light Horse Harry” Lee in 1799 as having been “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.” In “American Patriarch: The Life of George Washington,” prolific historian H.W. Brands delivers an in-depth look at the man who was driving events years before there was a United States.