02587cam a2200325 i 4500 508770929 TxAuBib 20211015120000.0 210223s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020054623 9780525562177 HRD 30.00 0525562176 HRD 30.00 TxAuBib rda Philbrick, Nathaniel, 1956- Travels with George. Travels with George [BOOK] : in search of Washington and his legacy / Nathaniel Philbrick. New York : Viking, 2021. xviii, 374 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. 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. Written at a moment when America's founding figures are under increasing scrutiny, Travels with George 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. Provided by publisher. 20211015. Washington, George 1732-1799 Travel United States. Philbrick, Nathaniel Travel United States. Historical reenactments United States. United States History 18th century. United States Politics and government 1789-1797. United States Description and travel.