Very readable.  Very informative.  Does a good job of recognizing many ways in which the roll of president was shaped by George Washington, and many ways in which the young country was still feeling it’s way at the time of his presidency.  We so often hear in today’s politics people arguing about what the “founding fathers” believed, but this book does a good job of illustrating how much disagreement their was among the founding fathers, and showing that George Washington purposely set out to make sure he would hear from opposing sides before making his own decisions:  the idea of the President having a cabinet of advisers was not in the Constitution, but was instituted by Washington, and has continued ever since, for this purpose.