James Thomas Flexner

James Thomas Flexner (January 13, 1908 – February 13, 2003) was an American historian and biographer best known for the four-volume biography of George Washington that earned him a National Book Award in Biography and a special Pulitzer Prize. His one-volume abridgment, ''Washington: the Indispensable Man'' (1974) was the basis of two television miniseries, ''George Washington'' (1984) and ''George Washington II: The Forging of a Nation'' (1986), starring Barry Bostwick as Washington. Provided by Wikipedia