Young Washington: Peter Stark

Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father Peter Stark Trade Paperback Biography & Autobiography / Presidents & Heads Of State (+9) 528 pages art throughout + 16 page color insert 8 in H | 5.3 in W | 1.1 in T | 1.3 lb Wt FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE The true story of a Founding Father: a new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author of Astoria. “Lively, well-researched . . . . A discerning history of pre-Revolutionary America and the man who shaped its future.” - Kirkus Reviews Two decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young soldier serving the British Empire in the vast wilderness of the Ohio Valley. Naïve and self-absorbed, the twenty-two-year-old officer accidentally ignited the French and Indian War—a conflict that opened colonists to the possibility of an American Revolution. With powerful narrative drive and vivid writing, Young Washington recounts the wildern