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 movingThe Founding Gardeners shows that it is impossible to understand these visionary men and the American nation without considering their love of gardening.

Format Häftad Omfång 400 sidor Språk Engelska Förlag Cornerstone Utgivningsdatum 2012-02-02 ISBN 9780099525622