Travels with George : in search of Washington and his legacy
Written at a moment when America's founding figures are under increasing scrutiny, the author, retracing George Washington's journey as a new president through all thirteen former colonies, paints a picture of eighteenth-century America as divided and fraught as it is today.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780593460214 (paperback)
- ISBN: 0593460219 (paperback)
- Physical Description: xxi, 578 pages (large print) : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition: First large print edition.
- Publisher: [New York] : Random House Large Print, [2021]
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-548) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Loomings -- Mount Vernon -- "Wreaths and chaplets of flowers" -- New York -- Dreaming of George Washington -- "Only a man" -- Turf wars -- "A child of God" -- The middle road home -- The spies of Long Island -- Newport -- Providence -- Terra incognita -- The fellowship of the past -- "Follow the yellow brick road -- "Eleven o'clock Sunday morning -- "A cat may look on a king" -- Muddy freshets -- "The devil's own roads" -- Epilogue. The view from the mountain. |
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