It was an amazing insight. They have been politically wicked from their beginning, over all the same issues (including slavery). The biography is well worth reading. It is intelligently written and the history is so unique, it is like learning our early history completely anew. The military science was not high technology, but it was very well thought out. Dealing with a feckless Congress in the course of a war was an unparalleled frustration. Washington may not have been perfect, but he was essentially a saint, and the only man the entire nation trusted. He was Honor walking on two legs. The day will come, in the Hereafter, when he and Trump will meet and shake hands, brothers separated by centuries.