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

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Andrea Wulf

The Founding Gardeners

How the Revolutionary Generation created an American Eden

Andrea Wulf

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Windmill Books
02 April 2012

History; History of the Americas; Social & cultural history; Gardening

The New York Times bestseller - a unique portrait of the founding fathers, exploring how their passion for gardens and nature influenced the birth of the American nation.

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.

By: Andrea Wulf
Imprint: Windmill Books
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 197mm, Width: 130mm, Spine: 30mm
Weight: 343g
ISBN: 9780099525622
ISBN 10: 0099525623
Pages: 384
Publication Date: 02 April 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Andrea Wulf trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art and is the co-author (with Emma Gieben-Gamal) of This Other Eden and The Brother Gardeners, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award. She has written for The Sunday Times, the Financial Times, The Garden, The Architects' Journal, and regularly reviews for several newspapers, including the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.

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

EXCELLENT... Wulf writes enthrallingly. Wonderfully illuminating and readable * Daily Telegraph * ENGROSSING... excellent ... fascinating... a timely and passionate book * Guardian * SUPERB...this book will fascinate anyone interested in gardening, agriculture or American history. * Mail on Sunday * WONDERFULLY ENGAGING... Her knack for description is marvelous * Times Literary Supplement * A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT... Excellent [and] riveting * Country Life *