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	George Washington: American Symbol  Barbara J. Mitnick George Washington is universally considered to be our most accomplished president, the perfect merger of military hero, effective administrator, and great leader. In honor of the 200th anniversary of his death, this beautiful volume presents the many manifestations of Washington the national icon, for his image is the one we have continually turned to during virtually every period of our history for both inspiration and marketing clout. Hardback. Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W437 $35.00
	General Washington's Christmas Farewell  Stanley Weintraub In this charming historical novel, Stanley Weintraub sets forth the tale of one of George Washington's most memorable Christmases. Some British troops remained in America in 1783, on orders to stay until ratification of the peace terms. Awaiting that word, George Washington longed to go home for Christmas, but late in November of 1783, the General was still many miles from home. Before he could return to Mount Vernon, he had one last mission to accomplish for the new nation. He had to reoccupy New York City, which the British troops were finally going to leave. Then the long war would really be over. Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W450 $16.95
	George Washington's Farewell Address  George Washington Small, stylish copy of Washington's Farewell Address originally delivered to the assembled members of Congress on September 17, 1796. Hardback. Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W452 $9.95
	George Washington: First in War  Dave R. Palmer George Washington's long career as soldier began with defeat as a young line officer in the bloody frontier skirmishes of the French and Indian War. It culminated in the role of Commanding General of the Continental Army in victory over the British Army. In this history of Washington's career as an army officer, Dave Palmer reveals Washington's many qualities of character that made him an extraordinary military commander; qualities that not only allowed him to lead a fledgling army to secure the independence of his newly-formed country, but defined the role of the military in a free and democratic society. Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W455 $9.95
	George Washington: The Man Behind the Myths  William M.S. Rasmussen and Robert S. Tilton Two hundred years after George Washington's death, the eloquence of "Lighthorse Harry" Lee's words "first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen" has caused most Americans to forget the clause that followed in which Lee located Washington's character firmly in his private life. This book redresses this historical imbalance in our image of Washington by examining our conceptions and misconceptions about him through a fascinating collection of documents and images. Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W457 $24.95
	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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