Founding Gardeners : The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation

Wulf, Andrea

ISBN 10: 0307269906 / ISBN 13: 9780307269904

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2011

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Used book that is in excellent condition. May show signs of wear or have minor defects. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 4792388-6

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Titel: Founding Gardeners : The Revolutionary ...

Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Erscheinungsdatum: 2011

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

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"Illuminating and engrossing. . . . The reader relives the first decades of the Republic not only through her eloquent and revelatory prose but through the words of the statesmen themselves."--The New York Times Book Review

"Anecdotes . . . shimmer through Andrea Wulf's fine story of how gardening and farming shaped the thinking of Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams and James Madison. . . . Luxurious and sharp-witted." --San Francisco Chronicle

"[A] lively and deeply researched history. . . . Wulf ingeniously connects . . . highbrow political philosophy to the founders' personal passion for horticulture." --The Washington Post Book World

"A timely and passionate book, with resonances beyond today's legion of new gardeners. . . . Wulf traces the birth of the modern environmental movement back beyond Thoreau and Muir to the founding fathers' passion for nature and plants." --The Guardian

"Andrea Wulf shows in her eloquently written and very beguiling Founding Gardeners that the garden, the natural world and the shape of a new nation were, for the men who launched the United States, parts of a whole. . . . She is a writer of considerable grace and breadth of vision, and Founding Gardeners is an excellent portrait of the early years of the federal republic. It will delight the general reader." --The Plain Dealer

"A highly enjoyable and thought-provoking book. Wulf combines a sure knowledge of garden history and 18th-centry politics with a keen eye for domestic detail and evocative description. By focusing the grand narrative of early America on four individuals, she writes the best kind of popular history." --The Irish Times

"It is certain that Wulf has wonderfully illuminated an often overlooked and very important aspect of the founders' lives, providing new reasons to be inspired by them. . . . Delightful, enlightened reading."
--NashvilleScene.com

"Wonderfully engaging. . . . Breaks new ground." --The Times Literary Supplement (London)

"Fresh and bountiful. . . . Wulf's delectable anecdotal approach . . . reveals each founder's personality and perpective, while her dynamic analysis results in a paradigm-altering vision of how 'the balance of nature' underlies our founding principles." --Booklist (starred review)

"Wulf offers a delightful new perspective on the men we usually associate more with politics than with plants." --Publishers Weekly