Posted on December 4, 2009 - by Nate

“The Life of George Washington” by Washington Irving

I just got done muscling my way through The Life of George Washington by Washington Irving. I’m not even going to say how long it took me to get through the stupid thing, but it did have some good gems within it. Part of the problem for me in reading it was the fact that Irving was a contemporary of G.W. which made the read a bit less friendly to the 21st century reader.

I will be eventually be posting some quotes from the book here on the blog. I’m almost finished with John Adams by David McCullough–I’ve been enjoying that one immensely. While he earned the Pulitzer for John Adams, I personally like 1776 the best.

Stay tuned. I just hope it won’t take me a month to get to