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 ...

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.

Finalists for the 2023 George Washington Book Prize discussed their books on the founding era. The George Washington Prize is an annual award sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American ...