Robert Middlekauff is Preston Hotchkis Professor of American History, Emeritus, at the University of California, Berkeley. He has been Director of the Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens (1983-1988), and Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University. His books include THE MATHERS: Three Generations of Puritan Intellectuals 1596-1728, which won the Bancroft Prize; THE GLORIOUS CAUSE: The American Revolution, 1763-1789, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; and BENJAMIN FRANKLIN AND HIS ENEMIES.

Books by Robert Middlekauff

Washington's Revolution: The Making of America's First Leader

by Robert Middlekauff - History, Nonfiction

George Washington was famously unknowable, a man of deep passions hidden behind a facade of rigid self-control. Yet before he was a great general and president, Washington was a young man prone to peevishness and a volcanic temper. His greatness as a leader evolved over time, the product of experience and maturity but also a willed effort to restrain his wilder impulses. Focusing on Washington’s early years, Robert Middlekauff penetrates his mystique, revealing his all-too-human fears, values and passions.