[PDF.02eh] First in the Homes of His Countrymen: George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American Imagination

First in the Homes of His Countrymen: George Washington's Mount Vernon in the American Imagination

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| More than just a home|By Hub|I loved it. Excellent description of the architectural and cultural history of this historical home, i.e. the periods of its history vs what was going on in our country. The author dealt with how this "home" was used as our National Home at world fairs, how its design was copied for all kinds of uses including the ideal Colonial country home, club| || First in the Homes of His Countrymen examines the sometimes puzzling, often maddening reverence with which Americans from 1799 through our own unhistorical era have regarded the first president's big, white house on the Potomac. Within a ten-minute dr

Over the past two hundred years, Americans have reproduced George Washington’s Mount Vernon plantation house more often, and in a greater variety of media, than any of their country’s other historic buildings. In this highly original new book, Lydia Mattice Brandt chronicles America’s obsession with the first president’s iconic home through advertising, prints, paintings, popular literature, and the full-scale replication of its architecture...

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