Skip to footer

Reader recommendation: Mr. President

Monitor readers share their favorite book picks.

  • By Martha F. Barkley, Charleston, S.C.

Harlow Giles Unger's Mr. President: George Washington and the Making of the Nation's Highest Office tells how Washington established the executive branch of the United States government. I also loved Unger's "Lafayette," his biography of the marquis de Lafayette years ago. Unger tells how Martha and George took care of George-Washington Lafayette, Lafayette's son and Washington's godson, in New York and Mount Vernon during the French Revolution.

You've read  of  free articles. Subscribe to continue.
Real news can be honest, hopeful, credible, constructive.
What is the Monitor difference? Tackling the tough headlines – with humanity. Listening to sources – with respect. Seeing the story that others are missing by reporting what so often gets overlooked: the values that connect us. That’s Monitor reporting – news that changes how you see the world.
Subscribe
QR Code to Reader recommendation: Mr. President
Read this article in
https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Readers-Picks/2014/0120/Reader-recommendation-Mr.-President
QR Code to Subscription page
Start your subscription today
https://www.csmonitor.com/subscribe