Seems George Washington is having a bit of an historical encore in the popular media. There’s the History channel’s recent compelling mini-series based on Joseph Ellis’s fine biography, ‘His Excellency: George Washington.’ There’s Alexis Coe’s new bio,‘ ’You Never Forget Your First,’ which Smithsonian Magazine’s Karin Wolf describes as “cheeky.” Add to these and many existing books, James Thomas Flexner’s ‘The Indispensable Man’ and Ron Chernow’s Pulitzer Prize winning ‘Washington: A Life,’ a masterful account in audiobook. If you grew up with the cannot-tell a-lie Washington, you could be among the been-there-done-that set. You might want to reconsider. Among the many biographies, Ron Chernow’s ‘Washington, A Life’ in audiobook is most engrossing and engaging. Some of the more diverting items…
