Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and

Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
- Garden History
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 Jeffersonâ€™s and John Adamsâ€™s faith in their fledgling nation; how a trip to the great botanist John Bartramâ€™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 theyâ€™ve never before been seen.
Country USA
Brand Knopf
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber new-20170302-c0005229
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2011-03-29
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780307269904

Country	USA
Brand	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	new-20170302-c0005229
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2011-03-29
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780307269904

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

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