Washington: A LifeModern · Biography, History, Nonfiction
Washington: A Life
2010 · 904 pages · Nonfiction
62
Modern
★ 4.18 on Goodreads · 88K ratings
≈ 23 hours to read · about 7 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (Biography) winner (2011). 4.18★ from 88K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
62Must-Read Score
- Critics53 out of 100 · counts 35%+21
- Readers71 out of 100 · counts 50%+41
- Buzz1 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Where it ranks
- #36 of the 207 memoirs and biographies we rank
- #59 of the 220 history books we rank
- #78 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #221 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (Biography) winner (2011)
Reads as
True story
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