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Description for American Eden
Paperback. From Frederick Law Olmsted to Richard Neutra, Michelle Obama to our neighbors, Americans throughout history have revealed something of themselves - their personalities, desires, and beliefs - in the gardens they create. This title offers an inclusive definition of the garden, considering landscapes from domestic kitchen gardens to city parks. Num Pages: 480 pages, 75 Black and White Photos Throughout; 16-PG Colour. BIC Classification: 1KBB; AMV; WMD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 187 x 26. Weight in Grams: 1116.
From Frederick Law Olmsted to Richard Neutra, Michelle Obama to our neighbors, Americans throughout history have revealed something of themselves - their personalities, desires, and beliefs - in the gardens they create. Monticello's gardens helped Jefferson reconcile his conflicted feelings about slavery - and take his mind off his increasing debt. Edith Wharton's gardens made her feel more European and superior to her wealthy but insufficiently sophisticated countrymen. Martha Stewart's how-to instructions helped bring Americans back into their gardens, while at the same time stoking and exploiting our anxieties about social class. Melding biography, history, and cultural commentary in a ... Read more
From Frederick Law Olmsted to Richard Neutra, Michelle Obama to our neighbors, Americans throughout history have revealed something of themselves - their personalities, desires, and beliefs - in the gardens they create. Monticello's gardens helped Jefferson reconcile his conflicted feelings about slavery - and take his mind off his increasing debt. Edith Wharton's gardens made her feel more European and superior to her wealthy but insufficiently sophisticated countrymen. Martha Stewart's how-to instructions helped bring Americans back into their gardens, while at the same time stoking and exploiting our anxieties about social class. Melding biography, history, and cultural commentary in a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
HarperCollins Publishers Inc United States
Number of pages
480
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780061583438
SKU
V9780061583438
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Ref
99-15
About Wade Graham
Wade Graham is a Los Angeles-based garden designer, historian, and writer whose work on the environment, landscape, urbanism, and the arts has appeared in the New Yorker, Harper's, the Los Angeles Times, Outside, and other publications. An adjunct professor of public policy at Pepperdine University, he is the author of American Eden: From Monticello to Central Park to Our Backyards: ... Read more
Reviews for American Eden
"Mr. Graham recounts his tale with considerable verve and a vast erudition in the history of gardening and the arts generally... Among much else, Mr. Graham shows us that the history of how our nation grew can be found in what it has grown."
John Steele Gordon, Wall Street Journal "We are what we plant, L.A.-based writer Wade Graham ... Read more
John Steele Gordon, Wall Street Journal "We are what we plant, L.A.-based writer Wade Graham ... Read more