Commander In Chief: George Washington and a Young Nation in Crisis

For readers of Ron Chernow’s Washington: A Life and Rick Atkinson’s The British Are Coming, award-winning historian Brady J. Crytzer delivers a fast-paced account of George Washington as never seen before: an embattled, untested president confronting five crises that threatened the young United States as he forged the powers of the commander in chief and secured the nation’s future.

The year 1748. Sixteen-year-old surveyor George Washington crossed the Blue Ridge Mountains into a wilderness ...