The founders of the United States were avid gardeners, agriculturalists, and botanists. Wulf presents this side of their natures, their relationships with nature, as a key ideology of these men  that contributes to our understanding of the American Revolution. Wulf is a trained design historian at London's Royal College of Art. Her book The Brother Gardeners was a hit among Samuel Johnson fans, and this book also won accolades for the new perspective. Perhaps we have not looked as closely as we should at this aspect of our history because so much of the labor of gardening in the colonies and early nation was done by enslaved people. Wulf shares information about slavery as well as other aspects of farming and gardening in the period. Like new. Alfred A. Knopf. New York. 2012. Hb. Dj. USED. $20.00