Inventing George Washington

“Lengel’s Washington is the archetypal American soldier—an amateur citizen in arms who struggles to learn an unfamiliar and demanding craft on the job....Outstanding.” — Publishers Weekly (starred review) on The Glorious Struggle

Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Papers Project  Edward G. Lengel delivers an entertaining and erudite history of America's Founding Father. In Inventing George Washington , a captivating counterpart to Lengel’s General George Washington: A Military Life , the historian looks at Washington’s life and writings, at the creation of his mythos, and at what his legacy means for our nation and ourselves.