WHEN POTUS WAS A UNAIMOUS CHOICE: 4/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washi: ngton and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.
WHEN POTUS WAS A UNAIMOUS CHOICE: 4/8\xa0 \xa0Travels with George: In Search of Washi: ngton and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.
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\nWhen George Washington became president in 1789, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing\u2014Americans.
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\nIn the fall of 2018, Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called \u201cthe infant woody country\u201d to see for himself what America had become in the 229 years since. Writing in a thoughtful first person about his own adventures with his wife, Melissa, and their dog, Dora, Philbrick follows Washington\u2019s presidential excursions: from Mount Vernon to the new capital in New York; a monthlong tour of Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island; a venture onto Long Island and eventually across Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The narrative moves smoothly between the eighteenth and twenty-first centuries as we see the country through both Washington\u2019s and Philbrick\u2019s eyes.
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\n1919 Mt.Vernon visit Duke of Windsor
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