Young Washington, Author Talk with Peter Stark

Two decades before he led America to independence, George Washington was a flailing young soldier serving the British Empire in the vast wilderness of the Ohio Valley. Naïve and self-absorbed, the twenty-two-year-old officer accidentally ignited the French and Indian War—a conflict that opened colonists to the possibility of an American Revolution.

By weaving together Washington’s harrowing wilderness adventures and a broader historical context, author Peter Stark offers new insights into the dramatic years that shaped the man who shaped a nation.