Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation

Written by:
Andrea Wulf
Narrated by:
Antonia Bath

Unabridged Audiobook

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Book
7
Narrator
2
Release Date
March 2011
Duration
9 hours 20 minutes
Summary
A groundbreaking look at the Founding Fathers and their obsession with gardening, agriculture, and botany by the author of Magnificent Rebels and New York Times bestseller The Invention of Nature. • “Illuminating and engrossing.” —The New York Times Book Review

For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for liberty and a belief in the greatness of their new nation.

Founding Gardeners is an exploration of that obsession, telling the story of the revolutionary generation from the unique perspective of their lives as gardeners, plant hobbyists, and farmers. Acclaimed historian Andrea Wulf describes how George Washington wrote letters to his estate manager even as British warships gathered off Staten Island; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jefferson’s and John Adams’s faith in their fledgling nation; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of environmentalism. Through these and other stories, Wulf reveals a fresh, nuanced portrait of the men who created our nation.
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Burton F

The reader, Antonia Bath, spoke so quickly that I missed a good deal of the book. Book good, reader terrible.

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