Founding Gardeners The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation

Name: Founding Gardeners The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
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ISBN: 9780307390684

ISBN-10: 0307390683

ISBN-13: 9780307390684

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Authors: Andrea Wulf

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From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers.For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating. Andrea Wulf reveals for the first time this aspect of the revolutionary generation. She describes how, even as British ships gathered off Staten Island, George Washington wrote his estate manager about the garden at Mount Vernon; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jefferson’s and John Adams’s faith in their…

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List price: $22.50
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 4/3/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 5.00" wide x 8.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Andrea Wulf trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art and is the co-author (with Emma Gieben-Gamal) of This Other Eden and The Brother Gardeners, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award. She has written for The Sunday Times, the Financial Times, The Garden, The Architectsï¿½ Journal, and regularly reviews for several newspapers, including the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.