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Despite his reputation as austere and aloof, Washington’s own letters and diary entries contain numerous examples of his amusing and often subtle sense of humor. This fact was not lost on his contemporaries, many of whom left anecdotes attesting to his spontaneous and sometimes caustic wit.
Laugh along with the Father of Our Country in this collection of humorous anecdotes from eighteenth-century newspapers!
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Frank E. Grizzard, Jr. is Director of the Lee Family Digital Archive,
an ambitious effort to create an online edition of the papers of the historic
Lee Family of Virginia, and former Senior Associate Editor at the Papers of
George Washington editorial project at the University of Virginia. A frequent lecturer on George Washington and other historical topics, Mr. Grizzard's other books include George! A Guide to All Things Washington; Jamestown Colony: A Political, Cultural, and Social History (with D. Boyd Smith); The Ways of Providence: Religion and George Washington; and The Hobby of My Old Age: Thomas Jefferson and the Construction of the University of Virginia.
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