He is everywhere, and he is nowhere. He is the man whose name everyone knows, yet about whom most know very little. He is on the dollar in which we trust and on the quarter coin. His name graces our nation's capital; in every state, there is a county named after him, and in virtually every county, a town or township. Who was George Washington? Why did his peers consider him primus inter pares (first among equals)? Using his own words, those of his contemporaries, and two centuries of scholarship, we will attempt to understand the man behind the myth, the man of whom Abigail Adams said, "Simple truth is his best, his greatest eulogy." – Andy Roth, Ph.D.
