I was wondering if anyone has read George Washington Reconsidered, edited by Don
Higginbotham?  The U Press of Va site describes the book as:

George Washington, heroic general of the Revolution, master of Mount Vernon, and
first president of the United States, remains the most enigmatic figure of the
founding generation, with historians and the public at large still arguing over
the strengths of his character and the nature of his intellectual and political
contributions to the early republic. Representing the finest recent scholarship
on Washington, these thirteen essays by the leading scholars in the field strike
a balance between Washington's personal life and character and his public life
as a soldier and political figure. Editor Don Higginbotham provides an
introduction about Washington and his treatment by historians, and an afterword
devoted to how the American people have viewed Washington, including the 1999
commemorations of the bicentennial of his death. With three essays written
specifically for this volume, George Washington Reconsidered is the first
collection of its kind to be published in over thirty years.



Contributors:

W. W. Abbott, University of Virginia

Lee Baldwin Dalzell, Williams College

Robert F. Dalzell Jr., Williams College

Joseph J. Ellis, Mount Holyoke College

Peter R. Henriques, George Mason University

Don Higginbotham, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Edmund S. Morgan, Yale University

Glen A. Phelps, Northern Arizona University

Martin H. Quitt, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Bruce A. Ragsdale, Federal Judicial History Office

Dorothy Twohig, University of Virginia

Gordon S. Wood, Brown University

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