If you are interested in the political intricacies of the drafting and ratification of the U.S. Constitution, this is the book for you. If you want to learn about the life and times of George Washington, His Excellency is better suited. "Return" starts out with Washington's famous resignation of his position as commander of the Continental Army and follows his adventures in the few years after that up until the convention in Philadelphia to draft a new constitution. It provides insight into Washington's view of the venture [spoiler alert--he was a Federalist] but what is packaged as a book about Washington really feels, for the middle 200 pages, as if it is a book about how the Constitution came about. A good tale in its own right, but not what I thought I was getting