A biography of the influential eighteenth-century Virginia statesman whose Declaration of Rights for that colony served as the basis for the Bill of Rights incorporated into the Constitution.

A biography of America's first President from birth to the beginning of the Revolutionary War, portraying the personal qualities which contributed to his greatness. With a clear, swiftly readable style, Flexner shows the wholly human way in which the character of one of the greatest men in history was shaped and how it, in turn, shaped his achievements. Able and energetic, impulsive and vulnerable, Washington from the first had major virtues but......