The Age of Rebellion

When George Washington was a young man, he was far from the level-headed statesman depicted in paintings and books from the Revolutionary War era. Born in 1732 into a second-tier Virginia family, Washington was drawn to a military career as a way to propel himself upward—with ambition that bordered on the lunatic. By 20, he was a colonial militia leader, described as “temperamental, vain, thin-skinned, petulant, and awkward.” He was emotionally needy and prone to making mistakes. 

Those errors