Chernow emphasizes the fact that his hefty life of Washington is the first to draw on the 60 volumes of documents in the recent edition of the Washington papers published by the University of Virginia, most of his important insights are not so much new as restated and elucidated. Rockefeller, and the latest author to attempt a resurrection of our immortal but unlively Founder. Now comes Ron Chernow, the deservedly acclaimed biographer of Alexander Hamilton and John D. Perhaps the nearest thing to a revival at the popular level occurred in 1996 when Richard Brookhiser wrote “Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington,” a short, forceful appreciation of Washington that shunned superfluous details and rendered the man in spare but vivid brush strokes. More recently, Thomas Flexner and Joseph Ellis have contributed solid, insightful lives of the man who is - quite justly - remembered as the father of our country without renewing much interest in their subject.
Lee remains a popular classic, wrote a seven-volume life of Washington between 19 that was already gathering dust before the last book saw its way into print. Thus Douglas Southall Freeman, whose biography of Robert E.
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