POLITICIANS NO LONGER SPEAK OF WASHINGTON: 6/8 Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy, by Nathaniel Philbrick.
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🗓️ 24 December 2023
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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.OACH MT. VERNON
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| 0:51.0 | Washington and his legacy. The South is an undiscovered |
| 0:54.9 | country in the past and the future for George Washington. He is a |
| 1:00.3 | southerner and yet North Carolina was also a reluctant state to vouchsafe the Constitution. |
| 1:06.7 | The traveling, however, in his cream-colored carriage, Chariot, with his horse Prescott, with his staff, two of whom are slaves, his |
| 1:17.0 | companions, his secretaries, is going to be over some really rough country and that I got the sense what Washington |
| 1:25.9 | travelled was impassable. |
| 1:28.2 | He leaves in March of 1791. |
| 1:31.3 | He returns in July of 1791, but this was not obvious that he was going to survive this. |
| 1:37.0 | No, this was the Odyssey, if you will, the journey into top all journeys for George Washington when it came to these |
| 1:47.8 | groups of tours of the |
| 1:55.0 | words of the country. I mean this was almost 2,000 miles of travel involved. It was going it took him three months over the worst roads in the country |
| 2:01.0 | and the accommodations were terrible. You know they were had not been |
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