Title: Confusing analysis of Washington
Review: This is a strange book. On the one hand it is very well written, engaging, and it illuminates the events of the revolutionary war in 1776 very well. On the other hand, the events of that year do NOT confirm the perspective that McCollough chooses to take toward his subject. The author clearly adopts the noble, father-of-his-country attitude toward Washington but then, simultaneously and confusingly, describes the military events of 1776 that show his hero as an ineffective, hesitant, and, arguably, incompetent leader. I therefore found the book unsatisfying and somewhat incoherent.
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