Speech to the Delaware Chiefs, May 12, 1779 Proclamation Concerning Loyalists, January 25, 1777 To the Executive Committee of the Continental Congress, January 1, 1777 Reward for Runaway Slaves, August 11, 1761Īddress to the Continental Congress, June 16, 1775 Journey to the French Commandant, January 16–17, 1754įarewell Address to the Virginia Regiment, January 10, 1759 His most recent biography, Washington: A Life, received 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography and the American History Book Prize. Rockefeller, were both nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award in biography. Two subsequent books, Alexander Hamilton and Titan: The Life of John D. Ron Chernow won the National Book Award in 1990 for his first book, The House of Morgan. His Pulitzer Prize–winning biographer, Ron Chernow, remarks, “To encounter Washington in his writings is to confront a notably hot-blooded and opinionated man, not the reticent sphinx of American myth.” George Washington, the indispensable founder of the American republic, was at the heart of events of worldwide importance-and he was also a writer of remarkable clarity, energy, force, and eloquence. Presiding delegate to the Constitutional Convention. Commander of the ill-equipped and undermanned Continental Army in the War of Independence. A young officer leading an attack that triggered a global struggle for empire.
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