It’s a story about a man whose life reads as if it were torn from the pages of an action novel: Horses shot out from under him. Unimaginable hardship. Disease. Heroism. Spies and double-agents.

Being George Washington is a whole new way to look at history. You won’t simply read about the awful winter spent at Valley Forge—you’ll live it right alongside Washington. You’ll be on the boat with him crossing the Delaware, in the trenches with him at Yorktown, and standing next to him at the Constitutional Conventional as a new republic is born.

Don’t elect another president until you truly understand what made the first one so great.