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The Founding Gardeners

By: Andrea Wulf
Narrated by: Antonia Bath
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A follow-up to Andrea Wulf's award-winning and critically acclaimed history of British gardening, this is the 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.

Through a series of vignettes spanning the Declaration of Independence to the death of Adams and Jefferson exactly fifty years to the day afterwards, these stories that weave the political, the personal and the botanical and are in turns funny, fascinating and moving.

The Founding Gardeners shows that it is impossible to understand these visionary men and the American nation without considering their love of gardening.

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America’s Founding Fathers by Allen C. Guelzo provides a much better history of all the men who contributed to the creation of the constitution, declaration and political system of America.

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