The Washingtons : George and Martha, "join'd by friendship, crown'd by love"

Author

Flora Fraser

Call Number

• 920 F8416 (CEN)

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Edition

First United States edition.

Publication Information

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

Physical Description

xviii, 440 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Notes

Map on endpapers.

"Originally published in hardcover in Great Britain by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, in 2015"--Title page verso.

"This is a Borzoi Book"--Title page verso.

Contents

• Book I. The colonel and his lady, 1758-1775
• Colonial colonel
• Dandridge's daughter
• North and south
• Mount Vernon, Fairfax County
• Family affairs
• Acts and associations
• Fevers and physicians
• The schooling of Jacky Custis
• Death and adjustment
• Continental Army
• Book II. The general and Lady Washington, 1775-1783
• Taking command, 1775
• Besieging Boston, 1775-1776
• New York and Philadelphia, 1776
• Retreat to the Delaware, 1776-1777
• Morristown and Brandywine, 1777
• Valley Forge, 1777-1778
• Philadelphia and Middlebrook, 1778-1779
• The hard winter: Morristown, 1779-1780
• Home and headquarters, 1780-1781
• Victory on the York and private grief, 1781
• Uncertainty and disaffection, 1781-1783
• Peace on the Hudson, 1783
• Book III. After the war, 1784-1802
• Mount Vernon, 1784-1786
• Conventions and elections, 1787-1789
• New York houses, 1789-1790
• Market Street, Philadelphia, 1790-1793
• Second term, 1793-1797
• Retirement, 1797-1798
• The death of a president, 1799
• Dissolution, 1799-1802.