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- 9780195136289
- Book Title
- George Washington's Mount Vernon : at Home in Revolutionary America
- Item Length
- 10.1in
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- Oxford University Press, Incorporated
- Publication Year
- 2000
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Architecture, History
- Topic
- United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Presidents & Heads of State, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / General, History / General
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- 6.9in
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- 20.4 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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George Washington's Mount Vernon brings together--for the first time--the details of Washington's 45-year endeavor to build and perfect Mount Vernon. In doing so it introduces us to a Washington few of his contemporaries knew, and one little noticed by historians since. Here we meet the planter/patriot who also genuinely loved building, a man passionately human in his desire to impress on his physical surroundings the stamp of his characterand personal beliefs. As chief architect and planner of the countless changes made at Mount Vernon over the years, Washington began by imitating accepted models of fashionable taste, but as time passed heincreasingly followed his own ideas. Hence, architecturally, as the authors show, Mount Vernon blends the orthodox and the innovative in surprising ways, just as the new American nation would. Equally interesting is the light the book sheds on the process of building at Mount Vernon, and on the people--slave and free--who did the work. Washington was a demanding master, and in their determination to preserve their own independence his workers often clashed with him. Yet, as the Dalzells argue,that experience played a vital role in shaping his hopes for the future of American society--hope that embraced in full measure the promise of the revolution in which he had led his fellowcitizens. George Washington's Mount Vernon thus compellingly combines the two sides of Washington's life--the public and the private--and uses the combination to enrich our understanding of both. Gracefully written, with more than 80 photographs, maps, and engravings, the book tells a fascinating story with memorable insight.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press, Incorporated
ISBN-10
0195136284
ISBN-13
9780195136289
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108467190
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Book Title
George Washington's Mount Vernon : at Home in Revolutionary America
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Presidents & Heads of State, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), United States / General, History / General
Publication Year
2000
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Architecture, History
Number of Pages
320 Pages
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Item Length
10.1in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
6.9in
Item Weight
20.4 Oz
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"This excellent and very interesting new book on Mount Vernon is also a fine addition to the literature on Washinton.... Their careful study of how Washington twice rebuilt Mount Vernon illuminates characteristics of Washington's personality and values, just as their clear understanding ofWashington's intentions helps explain why the Mount Vernon mansion and estate are unique and why Washington intended them to be that way.... The Dalzells find a unique blending of traditional and unusual features.... This is a fine and convincing book, tastefully illustrated and handsomelyproduced."--Richmond Times-Dispatch, "Washington was both the most indispensable and the most inaccessible of all the founders. In most histories he floats above the revolutionary era like a platitude. Here we finally get him grounded, palpable and human, off guard, at home."--Josepth J. Ellis, author of American Sphinx: TheCharacter of Thomas Jefferson, "This excellent and very interesting new book on Mount Vernon is also afine addition to the literature on Washinton.... Their careful study of howWashington twice rebuilt Mount Vernon illuminates characteristics ofWashington's personality and values, just as their clear understanding ofWashington's intentions helps explain why the Mount Vernon mansion adn estateare unique and why Washington intended them to be that way.... The Dalzells finda unique blending of traditional and unusual features.... This is a fine andconvincing book, tastefully illustrated and handsomely produced."--RichmondTimes-Dispatch, "Mount Vernon was, and has been restored to be, a spectacular stage setting, and the Dalzells bring us behind the scenes, which enhances our appreciation of the performance. This is a book for all students of history, of material culture, of art and architecture, of landscape design, and forall visitors to Mount Vernon."--Reviews in American History, "Much of the originality of George Washington's Mount Vernon is in the painstaking work the Dalzell's have done collecting biographies of the contractors, managers, overseers, carpenters, joiners, masons, bricklayers, and slaves who constructed Mount Vernon. Half of the book details the livesand labors of these obscure characters, an impressive piece of research. The work is further enriched by maps, drawings, and photographs of all phases of the Mount Vernon building campaigns, making it a necessary addition to any library of Washington studies."--William and Mary Quarterly, "This is an extremely important book concerning one of the best known, ifnot the most famous house in American history. It fills a major gap in theliterature of architectural history and Washtington and early Americanstudies."--Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor of Architectural History,University of Virginia, "George Washington's Mount Vernon interweaves architectural history,social history, and biography into a complex and entrancing story of a man andhis house. That George Washington kept improving Mount Vernon to the end of hislife, while laboring to bring the nation into existence, is evidence ofarchitecture's power of the gentry imagination in the eighteenth century. Inthis illuminating book, we learn about Washington's spats with his workers, howhe used the house socially, the problems of directing construction from adistance, and what the house may have meant culturally in the new Americannation."--Richard Lyman Bushman, Gouveneur Morris Professor of History, ColumbiaUniversity, "George Washington's Mount Vernon, the husband-and-wife collaboration of Robert and Lee Dalzell, is a lovely book...as much about the builder, the foremost Founding Father, as about his house. There are insights in it about the character of George Washington that don't emerge from the rest ofthe Washington literature, vast as the corpus is."--Eric L. McKitrick, The New York Review of Books, "Robert F. Dalzell and Lee Baldwin Dalzell accomplish a fine balancingact, integrating the story of George Washington's home with the public andprivate life of its longtime occupant.... Without being overly mechanistic, theDalzell's portray Mount Vernon as a sort of metaphor for the changes inWashington's own life and career. THis approach necessitates considerableattention to the social, political, and architectural context of Washington'stime and provides significant insight."--Library Journal, "The Dalzells have given us George Washington, the builder of both acomplexly stated home and of a nation in the throes of democratization. Overthe course of forty-five turbulent years, Washington fashioned a structure thatwould reflect the colonial planter, the retired war hero, and the leader of thewestern world's only republic. His designs were distilled through craftsmen ofevery ilk--free and enslaved, white and black--and the story of how Mount Vernonwas built is as fascinating as what the home ultimately reveals about thisAmerican figure whose self-expression was often measured and restrained."--JohnP. Riley, historian, "The Dalzells combine meticulous research and clear writing to help defind the so-called marble man in a more human light as a friendly neighbor, an avowedly earnest perfectionist, and a demanding yet kind slave owner and employer among the land-seekers of colonial Virginia.... This is thedefinitive study of Mount Vernon, long overdue for the place that's been a seeding ground for ideals of American independence."--Kirkus Reviews, "Washington left no formal memoir of either his public or private life, but Robert Dalzell and his wife Lee find Washington's personal history writ large in the home he loved so much. Rich in detail mined from Washington's personal papers, this beautifully illustrated volume chronicles notonly the architectural facts of Mount Vernon, but also the human ones, most especially Washington's complicated relationships with his slaves...a superb history."--Publishers Weekly, "[The Dalzells] accomplish the basic task of interpreting Mount Vernon as a social statement about Washington. Oddly, no single book has explored the site with such precision...[a] fine book."--The Journal of American History, "This thoughtful, well-written study casts important light on theevolution of Mount Vernon and the relationship of Washington and his home to theAmerican Revolution. Part of really getting to know Washington will now be toread the Dalzells' book."--Don Higginbotham, Dowd Professor, University of NorthCarolina at Chapel Hill, "Robert F. Dalzell and Lee Baldwin Dalzell accomplish a fine balancing act, integrating the story of George Washington's home with the public and private life of its longtime occupant.... Without being overly mechanistic, the Dalzell's portray Mount Vernon as a sort of metaphor for the changesin Washington's own life and career. This approach necessitates considerable attention to the social, political, and architectural context of Washington's time and provides significant insight."--Library Journal, "This is an extremely important book concerning one of the best known, if not the most famous house in American history. It fills major gaps in the literature of architectural history and Washtington and early American studies."--Richard Guy Wilson, Commonwealth Professor of ArchitecturalHistory, University of Virginia, "Washington was both the most indispensable and the most inaccessible ofall the founders. In most histories he floats above the revolutionary era like aplatitude. Here we finally get him grounded, palpable and human, off guard, athome."--Josepth J. Ellis, author of American Sphinx: The Character of ThomasJefferson, "Washington left no formal memoir of either his public or private life,but Robert Dalzell and his wife Lee find Washington's personal history writlarge in the home he loved so much. Rich in detail mined from Washington'spersonal papers, this beautifully illustrated volume chronicles not only thearchitectural facts of Mount Vernon, but also the human ones, most especiallyWashington's complicated relationships with his slaves...a superbhistory."--Publishers Weekly, "The Dalzell's combine meticulous research and clear writing to helpdefind the so-called marble man in a more human light as a friendly neighbor, anavowedly earnest perfectionist, and a demanding yet kind slave owner andemployer among the land-seekers of colonial Virginia.... This is the definitivestudy of Mount Vernon, long overdue for the place that's been a seeding groundfor ideals of American independence."--Kirkus Reviews, "George Washington's Mount Vernon, the husband-and-wife collaboration of Robert and Lee Dalzell, is a lovely book...as much about the builder, the foremost Founding Father, as about his house. There are insights in it about the character of George Washington that don't emerge from the rest of the Washington literature, vast as the corpus is."--Eric L. McKitrick, The New York Review of Books, "An impressive and elegant book makes a convincing case that the man whowas 'first in war, first in peace...' also claims recongition as an originalAmerican architect, whose life-long project designing, building and rebuildingMount Vernon provides unexpected insights into Washington the man and Wahingtonthe creator of an independent republican culture."--Kevin M. Sweeney, AmherstCollege
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