An abridgment by Richard Harwell of the Pulitzer Prize-winning seven-volume biography. One of the most important American historians and biographers of the 20th-century, Freeman won immediate recognition and his second Pulitzer for this thorough and exhaustive study of the "Father of Our Country." Kammen, himself a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, helps to place this valuable historical work in a fresh, new perspective.

"A Touchstone book" Includes maps of: Thirteen Colonies; Forks of the Ohio, 1754-1759; Washington's Tour of the Frontier, 1756; Region of George Washington's Activities, 1732-1759; Washington's "Burgess Route"; Proclamation Line of 1763; Boston, 1775-1776; Invasion of Canada, 1775-1776; New York, 1776; Long Island Approaches to the Brooklyn Defenses; New Jersey and Philadelphia Campaigns, 1776-1778; Hudson Highlands, 1776-1783; Cape Ann to Baltimore; March to Yorktown and the Battle of Chesapeake Capes; Yorktown, 1781; Washington's Southern Tour, 1791.

Introduction / Michael Kammen -- Editor's Note -- Chapters 1-25 -- Afterward: The Pen of Douglas Southall Freeman / Dumas Malone--Index