A conversation with ‘Founding Gardeners’ author Andrea Wulf
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 14th, 2011 4:35 am by HL
A conversation with ‘Founding Gardeners’ author Andrea Wulf
Andrea Wulf looks right at home in the U.S. Botanic Garden conservatory — a couple of hours off a plane from Atlanta, fresh from an interview for “All Things Considered,” the horticultural historian poses for a photographer amid the palms and the orchids and a thousand other tropical flowers.
Wulf’s new book, “Founding Gardeners,” recently reached No. 32 on the New York Times bestseller list. An unlikely feat for a gardening history, but Wulf has hit on something: She’s taken a quartet of iconic American figures and wrapped them in the zeitgeist of the postmodern victory garden. Her book argues that George Washington, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson and James Madison were all dirt-under-the-fingernails gardeners whose love of the soil shaped the way they forged a nascent country.
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