Historian James Thomas Flexner"s multi-award-winning and magisterial four-volume biography of George Washington moved beyond what the author termed a??the marble imagea?? to reveal the man behind the icon. This updated illustrated edition--based on the bestselling 1974 one-volume abridgement--enhances Flexner"s graceful prose with an assortment of rare maps, lost letters, and historical images, giving readers an unmatched perspective on the man whose inspired leadership as soldier and statesman made him the indispensable rallying point of a daring revolution and the bulwark of a new nation.