" ... The details of Washington's 45-year-long campaign to build and perfect Mount Vernon."--Jacket.

Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after the motto of Georg

"American historians began producing in-depth studies of slavery and slave life shortly after World War II, but it was not until the early 1980s that the countr

George Washington was an affluent slave owner who believed that republicanism and social hierarchy were vital to the young country’s survival. And yet, he rem

Mount Vernon, despite its importance as the estate of George Washington, is subject to the same threats of time as any property and has required considerable re