Warts and all.
This is a highly critical biography of an American icon. It is well researched and ably presented, and above all, strips away the layers of goo which tend to surround any quasi-immortal national image of no matter which country. Many Americans will be surprised and shocked by revelations about, for example, the callousness with which he and his fellow planters bought, sold and even bequeathed their slaves. He emerges as no particularly great general or statesman, but simply as the best available at the time. It is the kind of dissection to which many more folk-heroes might well be subjected, and one which the British tend to do to their heroes more than most. It is agreeable to find an American author undertaking the same sort of debunking and is a book unlikely to leave the knowledgeable reader undisturbed. Glad to hae found it on Aamazon's web-site.