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Founding Gardeners - The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation (Hardcover)
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Founding Gardeners - The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation (Hardcover)
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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 fledgling
nation; how a trip to the great botanist John Bartram's garden
helped the delegates of the Constitutional Congress break their
deadlock; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of American
environmentalism. These and other stories reveal a guiding but
previously overlooked ideology of the American Revolution."
Founding Gardeners" adds depth and nuance to our understanding of
the American experiment and provides us with a portrait of the
founding fathers as they've never before been seen.
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