George Washington always smiled with his mouth closed. His bad teeth deeply embarrassed him. His ill-fitting dentures, he complained, “for[ced] the lip out just under the nose,” Alexis Coe tells us in ...

Few Americans are as surrounded by legend as George Washington is. The first President of the United States is renowned as a military genius who led his troops to victory during the Revolutionary War, ...

The Landsdowne portrait of George Washington by Gilbert Stuart National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquired as a gift to the nation through the generosity of the Donald W. Reynolds ...

* The Cast: The first US President, George Washington. * The Location: The US of A - during the 18th Century. * The Plot: To most Americans he is regarded as 'The Father Of Our Nation', but how many ...

Vol. 1-2. Young Washington -- Vol. 3. Planter and patriot -- Vol. 4. Leader of the revolution -- Vol. 5. Victory with the help of France -- Vol. 6. Patriot and president -- Vol. 7. First in peace / ...

No one would describe Alexis Coe’s unconventional biography of conventional biographical subject George Washington as boring. Starting with its cover illustration, a playful Washington grinning at the ...

It was over two centuries late, but a copy of a library book George Washington borrowed was returned yesterday to a New York library. The former president borrowed “The Law of Nations" by Emer de ...