Travels with George - Large Print by Nathaniel Philbrick (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Does George Washington still matter? The ... author argues for his unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new President through the former colonies, now an unsure nation. A new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into one narrative. When George Washington became president in 1798, 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 their lives and their feelings about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing--Americans. Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called 'the infant woody country'--to see for himself what it had become in the 230 years since. Writing in a thoughtful first person about his own adventures with his travel companions (wife and puppy), Philbrick follows the tour of America that Washington went on after becoming President--an almost 2,000-mile journey from Mount Vernon to the new capital in New York, a tour of New England, a venture out across Long Island, and into the hinterlands of Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina. The narrative moves smoothly back and forth from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, so we see the country through Washington's eyes as well as Philbrick's. Written at a moment when America's foundational ideals--or claims to them--are under scrutiny, Travels with George grapples bluntly and honestly with George Washington's legacy as a man of the people, a mythical figure of the early republic, a reluctant President, and a plantation owner who held people in slavery. At historic houses and landmarks, Philbrick reports on the reinterpretations at work, as well as meeting reenactors and other keepers of the flame. He paints a picture of 18th century America as divided and fraught as it is today, and he comes to understand how Washington entranced, compelled, enticed, and stood up to the many different kinds of citizens he met on this journey--and how through belief, vision, and sheer will he convinced them that they were now all Americans, creating a sense of national solidarity that had never existed before"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER <p/>"<i>Travels With George</i>...is quintessential Philbrick -- a lively, courageous, and masterful achievement."<b><i>--Boston Globe</i></b></b> <p/>Does George Washington still matter? Bestselling author Nathaniel Philbrick argues for Washington's unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new president through all thirteen former colonies, which were now an unsure nation. <i>Travels with George</i> marks a new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into a single narrative.</b> <p/>When 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--Americans. <p/>In the fall of 2018, Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called the infant woody country 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's presidential excursions: from Mount Vernon to the new capital in New York; a month-long 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's and Philbrick's eyes. <p/>Written at a moment when America's founding figures are under increasing scrutiny, <i>Travels with George</i> grapples bluntly and honestly with Washington's legacy as a man of the people, a reluctant president, and a plantation owner who held people in slavery. At historic houses and landmarks, Philbrick reports on the reinterpretations at work as he meets reenactors, tour guides, and other keepers of history's flame. He paints a picture of eighteenth century America as divided and fraught as it is today, and he comes to understand how Washington compelled, enticed, stood up to, and listened to the many different people he met along the way--and how his all-consuming belief in the Union helped to forge a nation.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Nathaniel Philbrick</b> grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and earned a BA in English from Brown University and an MA in America Literature from Duke University, where he was a James B. Duke Fellow. He was Brown University's first Intercollegiate All-American sailor in 1978, the same year he won the Sunfish North Americans in Barrington, Rhode Island. After working as an editor at <i>Sailing World</i> magazine, he wrote and edited several books about sailing, including <i>The Passionate Sailor, Second Wind</i>, and <i>Yaahting: A Parody</i>. In 2000, Philbrick published the <i>New York Times</i> bestseller <i>In the Heart of the Sea, </i> which won the National Book Award for nonfiction. The book is the basis of the Warner Bros. motion picture <i>Heart of the Sea</i>, directed by Ron Howard and starring Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy, Brendan Gleeson, Benjamin Walker, Ben Wishaw, and Tom Holland. The book also inspired a 2001 Dateline special on NBC as well as the 2010 two-hour PBS American Experience film <i>Into the Deep</i> by Ric Burns. Philbrick's writing has appeared in <i>Vanity Fair</i>, <i>The</i> <i>New York Times Book Review</i>, <i>The</i> <i>Wall Street Journal</i>, the <i>Los Angeles Times</i>, and the <i>Boston Globe</i>. He has appeared on the <i>Today</i> show, <i>The Morning Show</i>, <i>Dateline</i>, PBS's <i>American Experience</i>, C-SPAN, and NPR. He and his wife live on Nantucket.
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