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Washington

Name: Washington: A Life
Author: Ron Chernow

A Life

by Ron Chernow

Ron Chernow’s Pulitzer Prize–winning portrait of George Washington — the ambition, discipline, and sacrifice of the indispensable American.

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About the author

Ron Chernow

Ron Chernow’s bestselling books include The House of Morgan, winner of the National Book Award; The Warburgs, which won the George S. Eccles Prize; The Death of the Banker; Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Washington: A Life, which received the Pulitzer Prize for Biography; and Alexander Hamilton, nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award and adapted into the award-winning Broadway musical Hamilton. Chernow has served as president of PEN American Center, has received six honorary doctoral degrees, and was awarded the 2015 National Humanities Medal. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.