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

by Andrea Wulf

The Founding Fathers through their gardens

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The Founding Fathers through their gardens

Andrea Wulf examines the revolutionary generation through its interests in gardening, farming, and botany, placing those pursuits alongside the era’s political struggle and nation-building. The book connects personal practices to public history: Washington’s correspondence with his estate manager is set against the approach of British warships, while visits to English gardens figure in Jefferson’s and Adams’s reflections on the young republic. Madison’s relationship to environmental thought adds another dimension to the portrait. Together, these episodes frame landscape and cultivation as part of how the founders understood the emerging nation.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • Readers interested in the American Revolution and its leading figures
  • Gardeners and readers curious about the history of horticulture and landscape
  • Readers exploring early American ideas about nature and the environment

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Gardening and agricultureThe American RevolutionNation-buildingNature and environmental thought

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Book overview

A groundbreaking look at the Founding Fathers and their obsession with gardening, agriculture, and botany by the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. - "Illuminating and engrossing." --The New York Times Book Review

For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for liberty and a belief in the greatness of their new nation.

Founding Gardeners is an exploration of that obsession, telling the story of the revolutionary generation from the unique perspective of their lives as gardeners, plant hobbyists, and farmers. Acclaimed historian Andrea Wulf describes how George Washington wrote letters to his estate manager even as British warships gathered off Staten Island; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jefferson's and John Adams's faith in their fledgling nation; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of environmentalism. Through these and other stories, Wulf reveals a fresh, nuanced portrait of the men who created our nation.
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