Washington needed a job. Historian Willard Sterne Randall on the forefathers’ financial struggles.
Willard Sterne Randall is the author of six Founding Father biographies, including George Washington: A Life, Thomas Jefferson: A Life and, most recently Ethan Allen: His Life and Times, published by W.W. Norton. A former investigative reporter, he is a presidential scholar who participated in C-SPAN’s 2000 and 2009 rankings of the presidents.