PositiveSmithsonian MagazineNo one would describe Alexis Coe’s unconventional biography of conventional biographical subject George Washington as boring ... a wink of sorts, at Washington biography and at the ways that Americans have very consistently misremembered the first president. Coe sets herself apart from the historians she refers to as the \'Thigh Men\' of history: biographers like Joseph Ellis, Harlow Giles Unger, and Ron Chernow, esteemed writers in their own rights but ones who seemingly focus on Washington as a marble Adonis (with impressive thighs—we’ll get to that), rather than as a flawed, but still impressive, human being ... just 304 lively pages...still a full biography, covering birth to death and the highlights of his life and career between.
