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The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
Random House
April 2011
On Sale: March 29, 2011
352 pages
ISBN: 0307269906
EAN: 9780307269904
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a
fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and
intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen,
and farmers.
For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany
were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their
characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they
were creating. Andrea Wulf reveals for the first time this
aspect of the revolutionary generation. She describes how,
even as British ships gathered off Staten Island, George
Washington wrote his estate manager about the garden at
Mount Vernon; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas
Jefferson’s and John Adams’s faith in their fledgling
nation; how a trip to the great botanist John Bartram’s
garden helped the delegates of the Constitutional Congress
break their deadlock; and why James Madison is the forgotten
father of American environmentalism. These and other stories
reveal a guiding but previously overlooked ideology of the
American Revolution. Founding Gardeners adds depth and nuance to our
understanding of the American experiment and provides us
with a portrait of the founding fathers as they’ve never
before been seen.
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