A Special Guy for a Special Edition of TIME
He’s not quite person of the year, but he does get his own TIME special edition. If the longer tomes dedicated to the nation’s first president aren’t on your reading list (think: His Excellency: George Washington, Washington: A Life and Washington: The Indispensable Man, just to name a few of the best), then pick up a copy of this biography-in-miniature, which has been spotted everywhere from Target to grocery store check-out stands.
Historian Joseph Ellis (author of His Excellency) wrote the intro, and Mount Vernon assisted with the edition, though we weren’t contributors. TIME has created special editions about various historic figures throughout the magazine’s history. This one comes just in the nick of, well, time, for Washington’s 280th birthday next month.
