George Washington always smiled with his mouth closed. His bad teeth deeply embarrassed him. His ill-fitting dentures, he complained, “for[ced] the lip out just under the nose,” Alexis Coe ...

Chernow begins his book with such a moment -- Washington in 1793, the newly elected first president of the United States, seated before the disheveled, chattering, snuff-taking artist Gilbert Stuart.

Finalists for the 2023 George Washington Book Prize discussed their books on the founding era. The George Washington Prize is an annual award sponsored by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American ...