George Washington bibliography

This is a list of written works by or about President George Washington. The literature on Washington is immense. The Library of Congress has a comprehensive bibliography, as well as online scans of diaries, letterbooks, financial papers and military papers.

Biographies

• Achenbach, Joel (2004). The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-684-84857-0. 
• Boller, Paul F. (1963). George Washington & Religion. Dallas: Southern Methodist University Press. OCLC 563800860. 
• Brookhiser, Richard (1996). Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington. New York: Free Press. ISBN 0-684-82291-1. 
• Buchanan, John (2004). The Road to Valley Forge: How Washington Built the Army That Won the Revolution. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0-471-44156-4. 
• Burns, James MacGregor; Dunn, Susan (2004). George Washington. New York: Times Books. ISBN 978-0-8050-6936-5. 
• Chernow, Ron (2010). Washington: A Life. New York: Penguin Press. ISBN 978-1-59420-266-7. 
• Cunliffe, Marcus (1958). George Washington, Man and Monument. Boston: Little, Brown. OCLC 58007859. 
• Dalzell, Robert F., Jr.; Dalzell, Lee Baldwin (1998). George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-512114-7. 
• Edwards, Roberta (2009). Who was George Washington?. illustrated by True Kelley. New York: Grosset & Dunlap. ISBN 978-0-448-44892-3.  Juvenile audience
• Ellis, Joseph J. (2004). His Excellency: George Washington. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 1-4000-4031-0. 
• Espinosa, Gastón (2009). Religion and the American Presidency: George Washington to George W. Bush with Commentary and Primary Sources. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 978-0-231-14332-5. 
• Ferling, John E. (2000). Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-513409-5. 
• Ferling, John E. (2009). The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon. New York: Bloomsbury Press. ISBN 978-1-59691-465-0. 
• Ferling, John E. (2010) [1988]. First of Men: A Life of George Washington. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-539867-0. 
• Fischer, David Hackett (2004). Washington's Crossing. Oxford, England; New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 0-19-517034-2.  Pulitzer Prize winning book
• Fishman, Ethan M.; Pederson, William D.; Rozell, Mark J., eds. (2001). George Washington, Foundation of Presidential Leadership and Character. Westport, Conn: Praeger. ISBN 0-275-96868-5. 
• Flexner, James Thomas (1965). George Washington: the Forge of Experience, 1732-1775. Boston: Little, Brown. OCLC 426484. 
• Flexner, James Thomas (1974). Washington: The Indispensable Man. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-28605-2. 
• Freeman, Douglas Southall (1948-1957). George Washington, a Biography. 7 v. New York: Scribner. OCLC 732644234.  Pulitzer Prize winning book
• Gregg, Gary L., II; Spalding, Matthew, eds. (1999). Patriot Sage: George Washington and the American Political Tradition. Wilmington, Del: ISI Books. ISBN 1-882926-38-2. 
• Grizzard, Frank E., Jr. (2002). George Washington: A Biographical Companion. Santa Barbara, Calif: ABC-CLIO. ISBN 1-57607-082-4. 
• Grizzard, Frank E., Jr. (2005). George!: A Guide to All Things Washington. Buena Vista, Va: Mariner Pub. ISBN 0-9768238-0-2. 
• Grizzard, Frank E., Jr. (2005). The Ways of Providence: Religion & George Washington. Buena Vista, Va: Mariner Pub. ISBN 0-9768238-1-0. 
• Harvey, Tamara; O'Brien, Greg, eds. (2004). George Washington's South. Gainesville: University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-2689-X. 
• Henriques, Peter R. (2006). Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington. Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press. ISBN 0-8139-2547-9. 
• Higginbotham, Don (1985). George Washington and the American Military Tradition. Athens: University of Georgia Press. ISBN 0-8203-0786-6. 
• Higginbotham, Don, ed. (2001). George Washington Reconsidered. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. ISBN 0-8139-2005-1. 
• Higginbotham, Don (2002). George Washington: Uniting a Nation. Lanham, Md: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 0-7425-2208-3. 
• Hirschfeld, Fritz (1997). George Washington and Slavery: A Documentary Portrayal. Columbia: University of Missouri Press. ISBN 0-8262-1135-6. 
• Hofstra, Warren R., ed. (1998). George Washington and the Virginia Backcountry. Madison, Wis: Madison House. ISBN 0-945612-50-8. 
• Hughes, Rupert (1926). George Washington.... New York: W. Morrow & Co. OCLC 17399028. 
• Irving, Washington (1855-1869). The Life of George Washington. 5 v.. New York: G.P. Putnam. ISBN 9-78-055919419-1-X. 
• Johnson, Paul (2005). George Washington: The Founding Father. New York: Atlas Books/HarperCollins. ISBN 0-06-075365-X. 
• Kapsch, Robert J. (2007). The Potomac Canal: George Washington and the Waterway West. Morgantown, W.V: West Virginia University Press. ISBN 978-1-933202-18-1. 
• Leibiger, Stuart E. (1999). Founding Friendship: George Washington, James Madison, and the Creation of the American Republic. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. ISBN 0-8139-1882-0. 
• Lengel, Edward G. (2005). General George Washington: A Military Life. New York: Random House. ISBN 1-4000-6081-8. 
• Lillback, Peter A.; Newcombe, Jerry (2006). George Washington's Sacred Fire. Bryn Mawr, Pa: Providence Forum Press. ISBN 0-9786052-5-X. 
• Lodge, Henry Cabot (1889). George Washington. 2 v. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Co. OCLC 659431169. 
• Mann, Barbara Alice (2005). George Washington's War on Native America. Westport, Conn: Praeger. ISBN 0-275-98177-0. 
• Marshall, John (1804–1807). The Life of George Washington. 5 v. Philadelphia: C.P. Wayne. OCLC 317838280. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/28859. 
• McDonald, Forrest (1974). The Presidency of George Washington. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-0110-4. 
• Morgan, Edmund S. (1980). The Genius of George Washington. New York: Norton. ISBN 0-393-01440-1. 
• Morrison, Jeffry H. (2009). The Political Philosophy of George Washington. Baltimore, Md: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-9109-0. 
• O'Brien, Conor Cruise (2009). First in Peace: How George Washington Set the Course for America. Foreword by Christopher Hitchens. Cambridge: Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-81619-2. 
• Peterson, Barbara Bennett (2005). George Washington, America's Moral Exemplar. New York: Nova History Publications. ISBN 1-59454-230-9. 
• Phelps, Glenn A. (1993). George Washington and American Constitutionalism. Lawrence, Kan: University Press of Kansas. ISBN 0-7006-0564-9. 
• Randall, Willard Sterne (1997). George Washington: A Life. New York: Henry Holt & Co. ISBN 0-8050-2779-3. 
• Rasmussen, William M. S.; Tilton, Robert S. (1999). George Washington-the Man Behind the Myths. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. ISBN 0-8139-1900-2. 
• Schwarz, Philip J. (2001). Slavery at the Home of George Washington. Mount Vernon, Va: Mount Vernon Ladies' Association. ISBN 978-0-931917-38-7. 
• Smith, Richard Norton (1993). Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin. ISBN 0-395-52442-3. 
• Wiencek, Henry (2003). An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. ISBN 0-374-17526-8. 

Scholarly studies on related topics

• Anderson, Fred (2000). Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766. New York: Alfred A. Knopf. ISBN 978-0-375-40642-3. 
• Anderson, Fred (2005). The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War. New York: Viking. ISBN 978-0-670-03454-3. 
• Bickham, Troy O. (January 2002). "Sympathizing with Sedition? George Washington, the British Press, and British Attitudes during the American War of Independence". The William and Mary Quarterly (Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture) 59 (1): 101–122. ISSN 0043-5597. http://www.jstor.org/stable/3491639. 
• Elkins, Stanley M.; McKitrick, Eric (1995) [1993]. The Age of Federalism. New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-509381-0.  the leading scholarly history of the 1790s
• Estes, Todd (2001). "The Art of Presidential Leadership: George Washington and the Jay Treaty". Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (Virginia Historical Society) 109 (2): 127–58. ISSN 0042-6636. http://www.vahistorical.org/publications/Abstract_1092_Estes.htm. 
• Higginbotham, Don (July 1, 1990). "The Washington Theme in Recent Historical Literature". Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (Historical Society of Pennsylvania) 114 (3): 423–438. http://dpubs.libraries.psu.edu/DPubS?service=UI&version=1.0&verb=Display&page=record&handle=psu.pmhb/1172682566. 
• LaBan, Craig (February 21, 2010). "Hercules: Washington's Chef". The Philadelphia Inquirer. http://www.philly.com/philly/hot_topics/84718777.html. 
• McCullough, David (2005). 1776. New York: Simon & Schuster. ISBN 0-7432-2671-2. 
• Miller, John Chester (1960). The Federalist Era, 1789-1801. New York: Harper. OCLC 425211. 
• Muñoz, Vincent Phillip (Winter 2003). "George Washington on Religious Liberty". The Review of Politics (University of Notre Dame) 65 (1): 11–33. ISSN 0034-6705. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1408786. 
• Spalding, Matthew (Autumn 1996). "George Washington's Farewell Address". The Wilson Quarterly (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars) 20 (4): 65–71. ISSN 0363-3276. http://wilsonquarterly.org/article.cfm?AID=5232&AT=1. 
• Vadakan, Vibul V., M.D. (Winter/Spring 2005). "A Physician Looks At The Death of Washington". The Early America Review (DEV Communications) 6 (1). ISSN 1090-4247. http://www.earlyamerica.com/review/2005_winter_spring/washingtons_death.htm. 
• Wallenborn, White McKenzie, M.D. (5 November 1997). "George Washington's Terminal Illness: A Modern Medical Analysis of the Last Illness and Death of George Washington". The Papers of George Washington. University of Virginia. http://gwpapers.virginia.edu/articles/wallenborn.html. 
• White, Leonard D. (1948). The Federalists: A Study in Administrative History. New York: Macmillan Co. OCLC 1830658. 
• Wood, Gordon S. (Spring 1992). "The Greatness of George Washington". The Virginia Quarterly Review (University of Virginia) 68 (2): 189–207. ISSN 2154-6932. http://www.vqronline.org/articles/1992/spring/wood-greatness-george-washington/. 

Works

• Washington, George (1754). The journal of Major George Washington: sent by the Hon. Robert Dinwiddie, Esq; His Majesty’s Lieutenant-governor, and commander in chief of Virginia, to the commandant of the French forces on Ohio: To which are added, the governor’s letter and a translation of the French officer’s answer. With a new map of the country as far as the Mississippi. London: Williamsburgh printed, London, reprinted for T. Jefferys. OCLC 67325346. http://www.archive.org/details/journalofmajorge00wash. 
• Washington, George (1983–1995). Abbot, W. W., et al. ed. The Papers of George Washington. 10 v. Charlottesville: University Press of Virginia. ISBN 0-8139-0912-0. 
• Washington, George (1988). Allen, W. B. ed. George Washington: A Collection. Indianapolis: Liberty Classics. ISBN 0-86597-059-9. http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/848. 
• Washington, George (1889–1893). Ford, Worthington C. ed. The Writings of George Washington. 14 v. New York & London: G. P. Putnam's Sons. OCLC 1637240. http://go.utlib.ca/cat/1074488. 
• Washington, George; Kitman, Marvin (1970). George Washington's Expense Account. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-671-20589-7. 
• Washington, George (1997). Rhodehamel, John H. ed. Writings. New York: Library of America: Distributed by Penguin Books. ISBN 1-883011-23-X. 

See also

• Category:Speeches by George Washington

External links

• Works by or about George Washington in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
• Booknotes interview with Smith on Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation, February 21, 1993.