You Never Forget Your First

I ended up plowing through this. Confession time: the S.O. and I are huge GW fans. We have watched/listened to countless biographies and made many a pilgrimage to places where GW had strode across the grounds. To be fair, we live smack-dab in the part of the world where one can hit a GW historical monument with a paper airplane. I, myself, cross the Delaware several times a week. That said, I didn't go into this expecting to learn anything new but Coe did it. I loved how she framed the story. I learned more about GW's mother and stepson. I appreciated the hoecake recipe. This is not a stuffy, scholarly bio but a completely approachable biography that shows GW from many different angles, not all of them flattering and many of them myth-busting. He was a complex dude in a complex time and he was not some sort of God, but incredibly human and fallible. I'm so glad I live in a time when books like this and [b:Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge 30753748 Never Caught The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge Erica Armstrong Dunbar https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1483645814l/30753748.SY75.jpg 51303829] are being published so that, We the People, can see the whole story and not just the tall tales our history books have been spoonfeeding us for years. Well done and highly enjoyable.