Historian and Library Director

Douglas Bradburn

1 article 2017

Douglas Bradburn is a historian and the founding director of the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon. He is the author of works on early American political history. He contributed a piece to The Weekly Standard on George Washington.

Curious George

June 23, 2017 · Books and Art, George Washington, Magazine

John Adams, in his bitter old age, complained that George Washington was too much worshiped by the American people. Washington’s talents were at best superficial, Adams growled, and that the great man was “illiterate, unlearned, unread” was a fact Adams considered as “past dispute.” Historians have…