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Title: A portrait of a father
Review: Richard Brookhiser's "Founding Father" is an interesting book. Instead of being a straightforward biography, it seeks to extract the moral lessons from President Washington's life. This technique bears much fruit for thought. Particularly, I was struck by Brookhiser's focus on George Washington as the father of our country and how it speaks to us today-in an age of broken and nonfunctioning families. There are many good lessons to learn from Washington's life in this book. The one thing that keeps me from giving this book five stars is Brookhiser's tendency to slant how he thinks Washington would deal with modern issues (public education for example) in a way that makes them very like Brookhiser's views. However, this happens only a few times and as it is obvious when he is doing so, does not warrant too much concern. I recommend this book.
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