Early Biographers of George Washington

Chester River Press has just published First in Their Hearts: Early Biographers of George Washington, by Gerard Cataldo and Barbara Chesney, 2011. The book discusses the biographies of Washington written by Mason Locke Weems, John Marshall, Jared Sparks, and Washington Irving. Published in connection with lectures given by Cataldo and Chesney to the Old Kent Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution, the book contains the text of both lectures and vignettes of the four biographers.