The Founding Gardeners: How the Revolutionary Generation Created an American Eden

Author(s): Andrea Wulf

Fiction.

A 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.


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Group biography of the Founding Fathers by prizewinning historian, exploring how their passion for gardening & nature influenced the birth of the American nation.

Andrea Wulf trained as a design historian at the Royal College of Art and is the co-author (with Emma Gieben-Gamal) of This Other Eden and The Brother Gardeners, which was longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Award. She has written for The Sunday Times, the Financial Times, The Garden, The Architects' Journal, and regularly reviews for several newspapers, including the Guardian and the Times Literary Supplement.

General Fields

  • : 9780099525622
  • : Penguin Random House
  • : Windmill Books
  • : 01 February 2012
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 01 April 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Andrea Wulf
  • : Paperback
  • : 1204
  • : English
  • : 635.097309033
  • : 384
  • : HBTB