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""Written with verve, fairness and sympathetic imagination...it fills a long-standing void in our understanding of how George Washington evolved from an ambitious, largely self-educated young provincial who had trouble controlling his temper, into an inspiring, stoically self-disciplined leader of men.""--Washington Times

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Written with verve, fairness and sympathetic imagination...it fills a long-standing void in our understanding of how George Washington evolved from an ambitious, largely self-educated young provincial who had trouble controlling his temper, into an inspiring, stoically self-disciplined leader of men. --Washington Times To read this magnificent biography of America's First Mother is to understand the founding of our great nation from a fresh vantage point. Craig Shirley is at once a first-rate historian and a spellbinding writer. Mary Ball Washington is a major contribution to Colonial and early republic scholarship. Highly recommended! --Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University, and CNN's Presidential Historian The gifted historian Craig Shirley has written a surprising and important account of an essential figure long shrouded in the mists of time and legend: Mary Ball Washington, the woman who gave us the Father of our country. --Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winner and number-one New York Times bestselling author of Destiny and Power, American Lion, and Thomas Jefferson George Washington: gentleman farmer, revered military general, first American president, Father of our country . . . and son with mother issues? Craig Shirley brings to life America's first First Family in vivid detail, in this dazzling biography of George's colorful--and often difficult--mother. This riveting page-turner puts you at the center of one of the greatest Colonial family dramas--and you will see Washington and the forces that made him in a whole new light. --Monica Crowley, New York Times bestselling author and columnist for the Washington Times Craig Shirley has delivered a long-overdue, captivating book about the exceptional mother of the Father of our country. --Gay Hart Gaines, former Regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association Craig Shirley brings the same appetite for fresh facts and original insights he applied to Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt to Mary Ball Washington, the mother--and prime shaper--of George Washington. --Michael Barone, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute

"""The gifted historian Craig Shirley has written a surprising and important account of an essential figure long shrouded in the mists of time and legend: Mary Ball Washington, the woman who gave us the Father of our country."" -- Jon Meacham, Pulitzer Prize winner and number-one New York Times bestselling author of Destiny and Power, American Lion, and Thomas Jefferson ""George Washington: gentleman farmer, revered military general, first American president, Father of our country . . . and son with mother issues? Craig Shirley brings to life America's first First Family in vivid detail, in this dazzling biography of George's colorful--and often difficult--mother. This riveting page-turner puts you at the center of one of the greatest Colonial family dramas--and you will see Washington and the forces that made him in a whole new light."" -- Monica Crowley, New York Times bestselling author and columnist for the Washington Times ""To read this magnificent biography of America's First Mother is to understand the founding of our great nation from a fresh vantage point. Craig Shirley is at once a first-rate historian and a spellbinding writer. Mary Ball Washington is a major contribution to Colonial and early republic scholarship. Highly recommended!"" -- Douglas Brinkley, Katherine Tsanoff Brown Chair in Humanities and professor of history at Rice University, and CNN's Presidential Historian ""Craig Shirley brings the same appetite for fresh facts and original insights he applied to Ronald Reagan and Franklin Roosevelt to Mary Ball Washington, the mother--and prime shaper--of George Washington."" -- Michael Barone, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute ""Craig Shirley has delivered a long-overdue, captivating book about the exceptional mother of the Father of our country."" -- Gay Hart Gaines, former Regent of the Mount Vernon Ladies' Association ""Written with verve, fairness and sympathetic imagination...it fills a long-standing void in our understanding of how George Washington evolved from an ambitious, largely self-educated young provincial who had trouble controlling his temper, into an inspiring, stoically self-disciplined leader of men."" -- Washington Times"

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Craig Shirley is the author of Reagan Rising, Rendezvous with Destiny, Reagan's Revolution, Last Act and the New York Times bestseller December 1941. He is a regular commentator throughout the media and a contributor to national publications, and was hailed by the London Telegraph as ""the best of the Reagan biographers."" He is the Visiting Reagan Scholar at Eureka College, Reagan's alma mater, and lectures often at the Reagan Library and the Reagan Ranch. He and his wife, Zorine, divide their time between Ben Lomond, a three-hundred-year-old Georgian manor house in Essex County, Virginia, and Trickle Down Point on the Rappahannock River in Lancaster, Virginia. They are the parents of four children, Matthew, Andrew, Taylor, and Mitchell.

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