About the Author

Paul K. Longmore is Professor of History at San Francisco State University.

Reviews

Paul Longmore has examined the origins of the national image of George Washington, an image that still seems to hide the man. (How could anyone have been that good?) It was not, Longmore shows, the work of Washington's admirers, nor yet of any 18th-century equivalent of the press agent. Washington deliberately created his image himself.-- "The New Republic"