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The Founding Gardeners

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

Critics Review

EXCELLENT... Wulf writes enthrallingly. Wonderfully illuminating and readable
Daily Telegraph
ENGROSSING... excellent ... fascinating... a timely and passionate book
Guardian
SUPERB...this book will fascinate anyone interested in gardening, agriculture or American history.
Mail on Sunday
WONDERFULLY ENGAGING... Her knack for description is marvelous
Times Literary Supplement
A GREAT ACHIEVEMENT... Excellent [and] riveting
Country Life
FASCINATING ... this is a highly enjoyable and thought-provoking book.
Irish Times
ILLUMINATING AND ENGROSSING ... eloquent and revelatory
New York Times Sunday Book Review
FASCINATING ... genuinely illuminating, illustrated with a wealth of compelling detail
Spectator
Author Andrea Wulf
Narrator Antonia Bath
Duration 9 hours and 20 minutes
Release Date
ISBN 9781473518957
Format Audiobook
Publisher Random House
Genre History, Social and cultural history
Availability AU, GB, IE

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