It is hard to rank this book because it is kind of a like a text book, only the story is more interesting. While the history portion about our founding fathers was familiar, their passion for and commitment to agriculture and developing a self-sustaining farming model for the United States was p...
It's nice to know that our Founding Fathers (Washington, Jefferson, Adams and Madison) shared such a consuming interest in horticulture. This is a great piece of historical research; indeed, a full one third of the book's 330 pages are devoted to references and end-notes. But you'd be better off ...
It became almost impossible when, in spring 1848, Europe erupted into unrest. After decades of reactionary politics, a wave of revolutions swept across the continent. When economic decline and the suppression of political gatherings sparked violent protests in Paris, a terrified King Louis Philip...