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      The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden

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      A story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the birth of America.

      A follow-up to Andrea Wulf''s award-winning and critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is ...

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      Product ID:9780099525622
      Product Form:Paperback / softback
      Country of Manufacture:GB
      Title:The Founding Gardeners
      Subtitle:How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden
      Authors:Author: Andrea Wulf
      Page Count:400
      Subjects:Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history
      Description:Select Guide Rating
      A story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison's passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the birth of America.

      A follow-up to Andrea Wulf''s award-winning and critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is the story of how George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison''s passion for nature, plants, agriculture and gardens shaped the birth of America.

      Through a series of vignettes spanning the Declaration of Independence to the death of Adams and Jefferson exactly fifty years to the day afterwards, these stories that weave the political, the personal and the botanical and are in turns funny, fascinating and moving. The Founding Gardeners shows that it is impossible to understand these visionary men and the American nation without considering their love of gardening.


      Imprint Name:Windmill Books
      Publisher Name:Cornerstone
      Country of Publication:GB
      Publishing Date:2012-02-02

      Additional information

      Weight350 g
      Dimensions197 × 175 × 28 mm