American Eden : From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are - Wade Graham

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American Eden

From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: What Our Gardens Tell Us About Who We Are

By: Wade Graham

eBook | 5 April 2011

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American Eden moves luminously through landscapes of history, literature, biography, and design theory. . . . fusing sharp-edged analysis and graceful American prose.” —Kevin Starr, author of Golden Gate: The Life and Times of America's Greatest Bridge

“Informative and absolutely engrossing.”  —Ross King, author of Brunelleschi's Dome 

Garden designer and historian Wade Graham offers a unique vision of the story of America in this riveting exploration of the nation’s gardens and the visionaries behind them, from Thomas Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello to Michelle Obama’s vegetable garden, Fredrick Law Olmsted’s expansive Central Park to Martha Stewart’s how-to landscaping guides. In the tradition of Mark Kurlansky, Simon Schama, and Michael Pollan, Graham delivers a sweeping social history that examines our nation’s history from an overlooked vantage point, illuminating anew the living drama of American self-creation.

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"Mr. Graham recounts his tale with considerable verve and a vast erudition in the history of gardening and the arts generally.... Among much else, Mr. Graham shows us that the history of how our nation grew can be found in what it has grown."
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