Book
The Washingtons : George and Martha, "join'd by friendship, crown'd by love"
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.
Subjects
- Presidents > United States > Biography.
- Presidents' spouses > United States > Biography.
- Generals > United States > Biography.
- Generals' spouses > United States > Biography.
- United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Biography.
- Washington, George, 1732-1799 > Marriage.
- Washington, Martha, 1731-1802 > Marriage.