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Dear George, Dear Mary
Mary Calvi
A Novel of George Washington's First Love
St. Martin's Press
February 2019
On Sale: February 12, 2019
Featuring: George Washington
336 pages
ISBN: 1250162947
EAN: 9781250162946
Kindle: B07D2BZ698
Hardcover / e-Book
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Historical
A novel about heiress Mary Philipse's relationship with
George Washington, based on historical accounts, letters,
and personal journals by nine-time New York Emmy
Award-winning journalist Mary Calvi. “Love is said to be an involuntary passion, and it is,
therefore, contended that it cannot be resisted.” —George
Washington Did unrequited love spark a flame that ignited a cause that
became the American Revolution? Never before has this story
about George Washington been told. Crafted from hundreds of
letters, witness accounts, and journal entries, Dear
George, Dear Mary explores George’s relationship with
his first love, New York heiress Mary Philipse, the richest
belle in Colonial America. From elegant eighteenth-century society to bloody
battlefields, the novel creates breathtaking scenes and
riveting characters. Dramatic portraits of the two main
characters unveil a Washington on the precipice of
greatness, using the very words he spoke and wrote, and his
ravishing love, whose outward beauty and refinement disguise
a complex inner struggle. Dear George, Dear Mary reveals why George Washington
had such bitter resentment toward the Brits, established
nearly two decades before the American Revolution, and it
unveils details of a deception long hidden from the world
that led Mary Philipse to be named a traitor, condemned to
death and left with nothing. While that may sound like the
end, ultimately both Mary and George achieve what they
always wanted.
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