Founding Gardeners

Founding Gardeners
GzEa-lL8rngC
352
By:"Andrea Wulf"
"History"
Published on 2011-03-29 by Vintage

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. From the Hardcover edition.

READ NOW

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. From the Hardcover edition.

This Book was ranked 15 by Google Books for keyword american horticultural society.

The book is written in enfor NOT_MATURE

Read Ebook Now
true
false

Printed Version of this book available in
BOOK

Availability of Ebook version is true,"listPrice": {"amount": 14.99,"currencyCode": "USD"in true or false

Public Domain Status false

Rating by

SAMPLE

false