Travels with George : in search of Washington and his legacy
Does George Washington still matter? The bestselling author argues for his unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new President through the former colonies, now an unsure nation. A new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into one narrative. When George Washington became president in 1798, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about their lives and their feelings about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing--Americans. Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called "the infant woody country
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xviii, 374 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm - Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2021.
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Table of Contents
Travels with George : In Search of Washington and His Legacy
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Preface: The Chariot | p. xi | |
Part I | Inauguration | |
Chapter 1 | Loomings | p. 3 |
Chapter 2 | Mount Vernon | p. 9 |
Chapter 3 | "Wreaths and Chaplets of Flowers" | p. 21 |
Chapter 4 | New York | p. 39 |
Part II | New England | |
Chapter 5 | Dreaming of George Washington | p. 59 |
Chapter 6 | "Only a Man" | p. 75 |
Chapter 7 | Turf Wars | p. 89 |
Chapter 8 | "A Child of God" | p. 107 |
Chapter 9 | The Middle Road Home | p. 119 |
Part III | Into the Storm | |
Chapter 10 | The Spies of Long Island | p. 129 |
Chapter 11 | Newport | p. 143 |
Chapter 12 | Providence | p. 161 |
Part IV | South | |
Chapter 13 | Terra Incognita | p. 177 |
Chapter 14 | The Fellowship of the Past | p. 193 |
Chapter 15 | "Follow the Yellow Brick Road" | p. 215 |
Chapter 16 | "Eleven O'Clock Sunday Morning" | p. 235 |
Chapter 17 | "A Cat May Look on a King" | p. 253 |
Chapter 18 | Muddy Freshets | p. 271 |
Chapter 19 | "The Devil's Own Roads" | p. 289 |
Epilogue: The View from the Mountain | p. 309 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 317 | |
Notes | p. 323 | |
Bibliography | p. 345 | |
Illustration Credits | p. 359 | |
Index | p. 363 |