About This Book

This book examines the family life and career of George Washington, the first American president, also discussing myths and legends, monuments to Washington, and Mount Vernon.

This portrait brings the country's first president vividly to life through splendid paintings illustrating Washington's progress from boyhood to father of a nation. The potrait that emerges of George Washington is of a gentle, fair-minded man whose strength as a leader in the American Revolution, and then as the country's first president, helped shape the democracy we know today.

"The appealingly informal text is laced with engaging details." — Publishers Weekly

About the Authors or Illustrators

Michael Dooling

Michael Dooling has illustrated such traditional (and seemingly traditional) stories as O. Henry's The Gift of the Magi, Tom Paxton's The Story of Santa Claus, and Eric Kimmel's Robin Hook, Pirate Hunter!; his biographies include Johanna Hurwitz's Astrid Lindgren: Storyteller to the World and James Cross Giblin's George Washington: A Picture Book Biography and Thomas Jefferson: A Picture Book Biography.

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