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

by Andrea Wulf

Book Overview

From the bestselling author of The Invention of Nature, a fascinating look at the Founding Fathers like none you've seen before.

"Illuminating and engrossing.... The reader relives the first decades of the Republic ... through the words of the statesmen themselves." --The New York Times Book Review

For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307269906
• ISBN13: 9780307269904
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.5" x 9.3"