George

What This Book Covers

1. Chapter One - A Boy Named George
2. Chapter Two - The Surveyor and the Soldier
3. Chapter Three - The Virginia Planter
4. Chapter Four - Revolution (of the Elites)
5. Chapter Five - Commander of the Cause
6. Chapter Six - The Reluctant Ruler
7. Chapter Seven - The Final Plantation
8. Chapter Eight - First Among Fiction

Excerpt

CHAPTER ONE A Boy Named George HE WAS BORN on February 22, 1732, in the British colony of Virginia. Not a log cabin or a moment of divine lightning, just a modest plantation house on Pope’s Creek, born to Augustine and Mary Ball Washington. His father was a landowner, planter, and ironworks investor. Not rich by British standards, but in colonial Virginia, where hierarchy was everything, the Washingtons sat comfortably near the top. George wasn’t born great. He was born with potential, and in this world, that meant land. George’s childhood wasn’t marked by trauma or excess. It was marked by order. By discipline and structure. His father died when George was eleven, which meant no...