James Thomas Flexner "George Washington" Limited Edition, Leather Bound 4-Vol. Complete Matching Set [Sealed]

The complete Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece in four leather-bound volumes by Easton Press. 

Easton Press, Norwalk CT. James Thomas Flexner "George Washington" Limited Edition. Leather Bound 4 volume complete matching set. Each edition is luxuriously bound with full genuine leather. As new, sealed without any flaws. 

The complete Pulitzer Prize-winning masterpiece.

Flexner uses quotes from Washington's own letters, diaries, and other documents to reveal his virtues and vulnerabilities, the complexities of his character, and the challenges of his times.

"With a clear, swiftly readable style, Flexner shows the wholly human way in which the character of one of the greatest men in history was shaped and how it, in turn, shaped his achievements." 

Four volume set in one shipment:

1. George Washington: The Forge of Experience 1732-1775

2. George Washington: In the American Revolution 1775-1783

3. George Washington and the New Nation 1783-1793

4. George Washington: Anguish and Farewell 1793-1799

James Thomas Flexner

James Thomas Flexner (January 13, 1908 – February 13, 2003) was an American historian and biographer best known for the four-volume biography of George Washington that earned him a National Book Award in Biography and a special Pulitzer Prize. His one-volume abridgment, Washington: the Indispensable Man (1974) was the basis of two television miniseries, George Washington (1984) and George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation (1986), starring Barry Bostwick as Washington.

Biography

James Thomas Flexner was born January 13, 1908, in Manhattan. His father was Simon Flexner, a sixth-grade dropout who became a self-taught microbiologist, pathologist, director of the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research in New York City and discoverer of a cure for spinal meningitis. His mother was Helen Thomas [Flexner], a professor of English at Bryn Mawr whose sister was president of the college. In 1929, Flexner graduated cum laude from Harvard University, and found work as a reporter for the New York Herald Tribune. In 1931, he took a position at the New York City Department of Health as an executive secretary. The following year, he left his job to devote his full energies to writing. Although untrained in art history, he gravitated to art subjects as part of his interest in writing about American history.

Flexner is known best for George Washington, a four-volume biography published by Little, Brown from 1965 to 1972. He won a special Pulitzer Prize for the work in 1973. He wrote other historical biographies, including The Young Hamilton (on Alexander Hamilton), Mohawk Baronet (on Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet), and The Traitor and the Spy: Benedict Arnold and John André. He wrote many books on the history of American art, including a highly regarded life of the American painter John Singleton Copley. He and his father, Simon Flexner, M.D., co-wrote William Henry Welch and the Heroic Age of American Medicine (1941). (His uncle, Abraham Flexner, was the educator whose 1910 report led to the reform of United States medical schools.)

Flexner died February 13, 2003, at his apartment in New York City at the age of 95.