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Houses of the Founding Fathers
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by Hugh Howard and Roger Straus III
Sales Rank: 21584
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List Price: $50.00
$31.50
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on 8-5-2008.
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Features
Cover Type: Hard Cover with 354 pages
Published by: Artisan November 6, 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 1579652751
ISBN 13 Number: 978-1579652753
Book Dimensions:
11.3 x 11.1 x 1.3 inches
Weighs: 5.4 pounds
Product Review
The San Francisco Chronicle : "The forty houses and 48 people profiled in this lushly illustrated coffee-table book provide a sense of place for the American Revolution. Hugh Howard's text peoples the bare rooms in the reader's mind, and Straus' photographs give the armchair traveler a good sense of what tourists experience, if not a complete historical accounting."
—San Francisco Chronicle
Product Review
"What a smart, elegantly conceived book this is! Hugh Howard and photographer Roger Strauss III walk us through the homes of our Founding Fathers, transporting us back in time. A real treasure!"
–Douglas Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge and The Boys of Pointe du Hoc
“By bringing us into the homes of our founders, Houses of the Founding Fathers makes them come alive and reminds us that they were wonderfully human. With great pictures and research, this book allows us to imagine their footsteps and to feel our kinship with them. After reading it, I felt wrapped in the warmth of our heritage.”
—Walter Isaacson, author of Benjamin Franklin and Einstein
“What a smart, elegantly conceived book this is. Hugh Howard and photographer Roger Straus III walk us through the homes of our Founding Fathers, transporting us back in time. A real treasure!”
—Douglas Brinkley, author of The Great Deluge and The Boys of Pointe du Hoc
Reader Reviews
This book is many things. First, it's a selective architectural survey of many of the homes of our most important founders. While not exhaustive, the selection of sites is representative of important examples in the late Georgian, Adam, and Federal styles throughout the East. Well placed side-bars bring the readers attention to other sites and personalities, such as a neighboring plantation, church, or an important visitor, that frame each of the feature sites in historical context. It's a very nice touch that adds depth and beauty to the book. All the houses are beautifully captured by Straus' stunning photography. Something potential buyers should know is that much of the photography is of the interiors, and there are few close shots of architectural details. This book is really intended for a general readership rather than for architectural historians. Howard's text is really quite good, also intended for the curious reader rather than the serious history scholar. This is a book to be enjoyed rather than studied. It's for casual browsing, but offers enough architectural and historical insight to be interesting to the well informed reader. There's much more quality here than what we normally expect in a "coffee-table book." Now, if I could just get Amazon to deliver this book to me undamaged...
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