This book was incredibly interesting. I feel like I learned a lot even though I feel like this space in the book world can be pretty saturated. I loved it.

“George Washington: First in War, First in Peace,” by James A. Crutchfield (NetGalley Shelf App (EPUB),
Sapere Books, ISBN 9781800557369, Publication Date 2 Apr 2023) earns five strong stars.

This book is a fascinating, can’t put it down, lively piece of scholarship that brings a fresh awareness of George Washington. The book is cleverly misleading in that one might think it is a simple book; it is not. Instead, it’s so interesting and informative, I couldn’t put it down. The pace is perfect, the facts exhaustive, and the story riveting—the “triple crown” of historical scholarship.

We learn much of Washington’s formative years on the frontier and in the militia, his successes and failures as a soldier there, and how these influences formed his later thinking and decision-making as America’s premier soldier and stateman. His greatest strengths…he’s a very quick study, he learns from his mistakes, and, and he is both realistic and aspirational in his mentoring and his leadership.

His legacy is he is till mentoring us all these centuries later. I’ve long been a student of Washington, to include being invited to attend the grand opening of The George Washington Presidential Library at Mount Vernon. This premier library is a resource for scholars, students, and all those interested in George Washington, colonial America, and the Revolutionary and founding eras, and this book is a first-rate addition to that exhaustive collection. Definitely a must read!

It all comes down to our personal expectations of a book, doesn't it?
Many erudite authors have written bookstores worth of volumes about this man, but very few have been brave enough to write a "Reader's Digest" study of him. We have two large bookcases to testify to this, but this is the one I would recommend to share with others because it would not cause them to give an eyeroll. This one has the research to back it up and is a good read for those beginning their Revolutionary War Reenacting ventures.
I requested and received an EARC from Sapere Books via NetGalley. Thank you!

This was a fascinating book. Thank you NetGalley. Many books have been written about Washington. This gave his life to us in facts that I did not know but were interesting. I am amazed that we made to be an independent nation. We barely had an army to fight or funds to fight with. The politicians weren't any better. Washington was such an honest person. I felt sorry for him as the country kept calling back to serve and he wanted to just go home to Mount Vernon. I visited there many years ago and can understand just wanting to be home.