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ms. mcclafferty recounts the 2005 project where a group of historians and scientists from george washington's mount vernon estate set out to better understand what the first u.s. president looked like at different moments in his life. >> nonfiction books on the wide variety of topics from george washington to the x-rays to an american holocaust rescuer to the titans like bill gates and steve jobs and others. so when i began a project i really know very little about my topic, and as i begin to do the research, i sort of go on a treasure hunt. that's the way i like to look at it and i use primary sources in order to get through the material that i made to write nonfiction books that not only inaccurate but hopefully interesting. i began to look into a book about george washington and decided to write this book i began with george washington in the very same way. i knew very little about washington to the i had heard of course that he had shot down a cherry tree, which he didn't, and i had heard that he wore a wig which he didn't come and i heard that he had wooden teeth, which he didn't. so i f