George Washington: The Forge of Experience 1732-1775

x, 390pp. Red cloth-covered boards; gilt design on front, gilt titles on spine; illustrative endpapers. 8vo. Lightly bumped spine head. Text block edges just starting to tan. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. Dust jacket has very light shelf wear, mirrors book damage, not price clipped. In this first volume of his important four volume biography, Flexner explores the formative years of Washington's life and the experiences that contributed to his mature personality, recording with vividness and impressive factual support the contradictions in Washington's own temperament, the nature of his family and the society into which he was born.