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Travels with George : in search of Washington and his legacy
Title:
Travels with George : in search of Washington and his legacy
Author:
Philbrick, Nathaniel, author.
ISBN:
9780593460214
Edition:
First large print edition.
Physical Description:
xxi, 578 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
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.
Abstract:
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.