A New Book About George Washington Breaks All the Rules on How to Write About George Washington Alexis Coe’s cheeky biography of the first president pulls no punches ...

George Washington always smiled with his mouth closed. His bad teeth deeply embarrassed him. His ill-fitting dentures, he complained, “for[ced] the lip out just under the nose,” Alexis Coe ...

Chernow begins his book with such a moment -- Washington in 1793, the newly elected first president of the United States, seated before the disheveled, chattering, snuff-taking artist Gilbert Stuart.

YOU NEVER FORGET YOUR FIRST A Biography of George Washington By Alexis Coe Read by Brittany Pressley. Given that we are now a nation of armchair epidemiologists, it felt eerily relevant to learn ...

On Dec. 14, 1799, an ominous, fog-like gloom hung over Mount Vernon. Sixty-seven-year-old George Washington was dying. The ex-president, his doctors believed, was suffering from “quinsy” (a ...

It is Shirley’s hope that his book will be considered the “definitive biography” of Mary Ball Washington. “Mary Ball has been completely misunderstood by historians,” Shirley said.

Bookshelf; A ‘Marble Man’ in Full: Two Books on George Washington He may be the most enigmatic founder—one in whom Americans could identify their own ideals.

In GEORGE WASHINGTON’S AMERICA: A Biography Through His Maps (Walker, $67.50), Barnet Schecter aims “to tell Washington’s entire life story” from these fascinating materials.

It took an author living in Virginia’s Northern Neck near the birthplace of our nation’s first president to craft the newest book about his mother— “Mary Ball Washington: The Unknown Story ...