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Book

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

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.

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