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	Washington  Douglas Southall Freeman "Washington" is the most complete, definitive one-volume biography of George Washington ever written. In 1948 renowned biographer and military historian Douglas Southall Freeman won his second Pulitzer Prize for his new and dramatic reexamination of George Washington. Freeman's new interpretation was a fresh step, making Washington a living, breathing individual, flawed, but heroic. Here with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Kammen, and an afterword by Pulitzer Prize winner Dumas Malone, "Washington" is the most comprehensive biography available, and its value as an important classic has never been more evident. Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W459 $24.00
	Washington: The Indispensable Man  James Thomas Flexner This masterful work explores the Father of Our Country - sometimes an unpopular hero, a man of great contradictions, but always a towering historical figure, who remains, as Flexner writes in these pages, "a fallible human being made of flesh and blood and spirit - not a statue of marble and wood...a great and good man." The author unflinchingly paints a portrait of Washington: slave owner, brave leader, man of passion, reluctant politician, and fierce general. Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W461 $18.99
	Dining With the Washingtons  Walter Scheib Dining with the Washingtons is a lushly illustrated and well-researched compendium of historical essays and recipes-just the sort of definitive work I would expect from those who safeguard Mount Vernon. What I didn't expect, as I turned the pages, was that these words and images would accrue to yield such an intimate portrait of eighteenth-century American life. Here I learned, for instance, that George Washington preferred breakfasts of hoecakes, smeared with butter and honey, and that Martha Washington was partial to globe artichokes. By telling stories about what and how the Washington family ate and the ways they entertained, the scholars at Mount Vernon and culinary historian Nancy Carter Crump have sketched a compelling portrait of nascent American culinary identity.     --John T. Edge ISBN #W2315 $35.00
	Where the Cherry Tree Grew  Philip Levy In 2002, Philip Levy arrived on the banks of Rappahannock River in Virginia to begin an archeological excavation of Ferry Farm, the eight hundred acre plot of land that George Washington called home from age six until early adulthood. Six years later, Levy and his team announced their remarkable findings to the world: They had found more than Washington family objects like wig curlers, wine bottles and a tea set. They found objects that told deeper stories about family life: a pipe with Masonic markings, a carefully placed set of oyster shells suggesting that someone in the household was practicing folk magic. More importantly, they had identified Washington’s home itself—a modest structure in line with lower gentry taste that was neither as grand as some had believed nor as rustic as nineteenth century art depicted it. Levy now tells the farm's story in Where the Cherry Tree Grew. The land, a farmstead before Washington lived there, gave him an education in the fragility of life as death came to Ferry Farm repeatedly. Levy then chronicles the farm's role as a Civil War battleground, the heated later battles over its preservation and, finally, an unsuccessful attempt by Wal-Mart to transform the last vestiges Ferry Farm into a vast shopping plaza. ISBN #W2442 $27.99
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