The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington

by Martha Saxton

Book Overview

An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father

The Widow Washington is the first life of Mary Ball Washington, George Washington's mother, based on archival sources. Her son's biographers have, for the most part, painted her as self-centered and crude, a trial and an obstacle to her oldest child. But the records tell a very different story. Mary Ball, the daughter of a wealthy planter and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080909701X
• ISBN13: 9780809097012
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"