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	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
	Washington: A Life  Ron Chernow In "Washington: A Life," celebrated biographer Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of our nation. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life of Washington, this crisply placed narrative carries the reader through his troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian War, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic exploits with the Continental Army, his presiding over the Constitutional Convention, and his magnificent performance as America's first president. Despite the reverence his name inspires, Washington remains a lifeless waxwork for many Americans, worthy but dull. In this groundbreaking work, Chernow shatters forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man. Hardback. Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W316 $40.00
	Mind Your Manners! George Washington's Rules of Civility with Observations by James Henry II  George Washington and James Henry II In this beautifully bound and illustrated book, James Henry II brings you the one hundred and ten rules that guided the life of George Washington. In a day when being crude, crass, and offensive is in vogue, these rules speak to a different impulse. They remind us that beyond our desire for the immediate gratification of every whim there are other people with their own sensibilities and notions of dignity. They remind us of the early days of this country when being civil to friend and foe alike was not only good manners but a sign of one's worth. Hardback. Faculty/Staff and Alumni discount applies. ISBN #W357 $25.00
	The Ascent of George Washington  John Ferling Our first president has long been viewed as a stoic hero who rose above politics. "The Ascent of George Washington" peers behind that image - one carefully burnished by Washington himself - to reveal a leader who was not only political, but a master manipulator adept in the arts of persuasion, leverage, and deniability. Washington screened his burning ambition behind an image of republican virtue - but that image made him just the leader that an over-matched army, and a shaky young nation, desperately needed. Faculty/Staff and Alumni Discount applies. ISBN #W359 $20.00
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