WashingtonBy: Ron Chernow The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention and his magnificent performance as America's first