James T. Flexner is considered by many to be Washington's most eminent biographer. But for those who don't have time for Flexner's full four-volume biography of Washington (one volume of which won a special Pulitzer Prize citation in 1972), his one-volume condensation George Washington: The Indispensable Man will more than suffice. Flexner was both a fine writer and a solid researcher. He brilliantly portrays Washington as an ordinary man pushed to greatness by the extraordinary times in which he lived.
