ORIGIN YARNS: 8/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.
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🗓️ 2 December 2024
⏱️ 12 minutes
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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 monthlong 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.
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| 1:07.4 | Nathaniel Philbrick. The new book is Travels with George in Search of Washington and his legacy. |
| 1:14.2 | At one point, Nat makes it clear that the original Travels with Charlie by Steinbeck had a phrase, |
| 1:20.9 | you don't take a trip, the trip takes you. Well, we're about to take a trip to Washington, D.C. |
| 1:25.9 | Nat, it's a swamp in the summertime. |
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