This book begins with Washington's return to Mount Vernon, a victorious, but exhausted soldier eagerly seeking the pleasures of a quiet country life. Free of heavy responsibilities, his character expands in genial, often unexpected ways. All too soon, however, the idyll is broken. This promises to be the biography of Washington that will best serve our generation. | George Washington and the New Nation: 1783-1793 - Volume 3 by James Thomas Flexner, Hardcover | Indigo Chapters