George Washington's Mount Vernon; At Home in Revolutionary America

Robert F. Dalzell, Jr., Lee Baldwin Dalzell

ISBN 10: 0195121147 / ISBN 13: 9780195121148

Edité par Oxford University Press, New York, NY, 1998

A propos de cet article

Oxford University Press, New York. 1998. First Printing. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Fine. DJ: Fine. Yellow boards with green overlay on spine with bright gold lettering on spine. Pictorial end papers. 300 pp. This book brings together for the first the details of George Washington's 45-year-long campaign to build and perfect Mount Vernon. In doing so it introduces the reader to a Washington few of his contemporaries knew and one little noted by historians since. This book showcases Washington an original American architect, whose designing, building, and rebuilding Mount Vernon provides unexpected insights into Washington. A clean pristine edition.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: George Washington's Mount Vernon; At Home in Revolutionary America
• Éditeur: Oxford University Press, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0195121147
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780195121148
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st Edition
• État de l'article: Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Biographies
  • U.S. History/ Politics/ Presidental Matters
  • Regional Histories

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Synopsis

George Washington knew little of architecture when he planned and built Mount Vernon, but he did know what he wanted in a home. This unique and lucidly written book is the intimate story of the relationship between Mount Vernon, George Washington, and all the people involved in creating what has become one of America's greatest landmarks.

Revue de presse

George Washington's Mount Vernon, the husband-and-wife collaboration of Robert and Lee Dalzell, is a lovely book...as much about the builder, the foremost Founding Father, as about his house. There are insights in it about the character of George Washington that don't emerge from the rest of the Washington literature, vast as the corpus is. (Eric L. McKitrick, The New York Review of Books)