The Washingtons : George and Martha, "join'd by friendship, crown'd by love"
Summary
"A full-scale portrait of the marriage of the father and mother of our country--and of the struggle for independence that he led"--Dust jacket flap. Full description
- Book one: The colonel and his lady, 1758-1775
- Colonial colonel
- Dandridge's daughter
- North and south
- Mount Vernon, Fairfax County
- Family affairs
- Acts and associations
- Fevers and physicians
- The schooling of Jacky Custis
- Death and adjustment
- Continental Army
- Book two: The general and Lady Washington, 1775-1783
- Taking command, 1775
- Besieging Boston, 1775-1776
- New York and Philadelphia, 1776
- Retreat to the Delaware, 1776-1777
- Morristown and Brandywine, 1777
- Valley Forge, 1777-1778
- Philadelphia and Middlebrook, New Jersey, 1778-1779
- The hard winter: Morristown, 1779-1780
- Home and headquarters, 1780-1781
- Victory on the York and private grief, 1781
- Uncertainty and disaffection, 1781-1783
- Peace on the Hudson, 1783
- Book three: After the war, 1784-1802
- Mount Vernon, 1784-1786
- Conventions and elections, 1787-1789
- New York houses, 1789-1790
- Market Street, Philadelphia, 1790-1793
- Second term, 1793-1797
- Retirement, 1797-1798
- The death of a president, 1799
- Dissolution, 1799-1802.