James Thomas Flexner (January 13, 1908 – February 13, 2003) was an American historian and author best known for his prize-winning four-volume biography of George Washington, which earned him a National Book Award in Biography and a special Pulitzer Prize citation. His one-volume abridgment, Washington: the Indispensable Man (1974) was the basis of two television miniseries broadcast in the mid-1980s starring Barry Bostwick as Washington.
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