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

George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America
by Robert F. Dalzell, Lee Baldwin Dalzell

George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America
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Author: Lee Baldwin Dalzell, Robert F. Dalzell
Edition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2000-02-24
ISBN: 0195136284
Number of pages: 320
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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Summary: 5 Stars

Knowing Professor Dalzell and Mrs. Dalzell personally, I was incredibly curious to see how they blended the two seemingly connected but perhaps contrasting topics of George Washington and his home. Essentially, they were connected very successfully. The entire history of the home itself is told vividly with photographs, anecdotes, and objective descriptions of its development. Following, Washington's own personal, military, and political history is told in light of the times, and in the book's shining ability, in relation to the home itself. The Dalzell's cleverly-melded arguments and discussions leads the reader to a full knowledge of Mt. Vernon and its inspiring owner.
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Summary of George Washington's Mount Vernon: At Home in Revolutionary America

This book brings together--for the first time--the details of Washington's 45-year campaign to build and perfect Mount Vernon. Here we meet the planter/patriot who also loved building, a man passionately committed to impressing the stamp of his character and personal beliefs on the physical world around him. Architecturally, as the authors show, Mount Vernon blends the orthodox and the innovative in surprising ways, just as the new American nation would. Equally interesting is the light their book sheds on the process of building at Mount Vernon, and on the people--enslaved and free--who did the work. Washington was a demanding master, and his workers often clashed with him. Yet, as the Dalzells argue, that experience played a vital role in shaping his hopes for the future of the nation--hopes that embraced the full promise of the American Revolution.

George Washington's Mount Vernon thus compellingly combines the two sides of our first President's life, the public and the private, and uses this combination to enrich our understanding of both. Gracefully written, and with more than 80 photographs, maps, and engravings, it tells a fascinating story with memorable insight.

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