George Washington: The Wonder of the Age—by John Rhode-hamel (Yale University Press, $32.50)—is a masterpiece, a concise, fluidly written and well-grounded biography. Rhodehamel, who edited two highly acclaimed books for the renowned Library of America series of great American writers (one, naturally, of Washington's writings and the other of writings from the American Revolution), has executed an accurate and revealing portrait of a man who, more than any other, made possible the creation and subsequent success of the United States. Indeed, Washington emerges as one of a handful of giants in human history.
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