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

From the bestselling writer of The Invention of Nature, a captivating take a look at the Founding Fathers like none you have seen earlier than.

For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany had been elemental passions: a conjoined curiosity as deeply ingrained of their characters because the battle for liberty and a perception within the greatness of their new nation.
 
Founding Gardeners is an exploration of that obsession, telling the story of the revolutionary technology from the distinctive perspective of their lives as gardeners, plant hobbyists, and farmers. Acclaimed historian Andrea Wulf describes how George Washington wrote letters to his property supervisor whilst British warships gathered off Staten Island; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jefferson’s and John Adams’s religion of their fledgling nation; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of environmentalism. By these and different tales, Wulf reveals a recent, nuanced portrait of the boys who created our nation.