Mount Vernon Love Story, A novel of George and Martha Washington by Mary Higgins Clark (2002)

Mount Vernon Love Story
A novel of George and Martha Washington
by Mary Higgins Clark
Publisher: Mount Vernon Ladies Association
Copyright:  2002

Mary Higgins Clark's interest in George Washington was first sparked by a radio series she was writing in the 1960s , called "Portraits of a Patriot," vingettes of American presidents.

Always a lover of history, she wrote this biographical novel -- her first book -- and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, which was the family motto of George Washington's mother. With all events, dates, scenes, and characters based on historical research, the book was published in 1969.

In recent discovery by a Washington family descendent led to its reissue under its new title, Mount Vernon Love Story.

In researching George Washington's life, Mary Higgins Clark was surprised to find the engaging man behind the pious legend. He was a giant of a man in every way, starting with his physical height. In an era when men averaged five foot seven inches, he towered over everyone at six foot three. He was the best dancer in the colony of Virginia. He was also a master horseman, which was why the Indians gave him their highest compliment: "He rides his horse like an Indian."

She dispels the widespread belief that although George Washington married an older woman, a widow, his true love was Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife. Martha Dandridge Custis was older, but only by three months -- she was twenty-seven to his twenty-six when they met. Mary Higgins Clark describes their relationship from their first meeting, their closeness and his tenderness toward her two children. Martha shared his life in every way, crossing the British lines to join him in Boston and enduring with him the bitter hardship of the winter in Valley Forge. As Lady Bird Johnson was never called Claudia, Martha Washington was never known as Martha. Her family and friends called her Patsy. George always called her "my dearest Patsy" and wore a locket with her picture around his neck.

In Mount Vernon Love Story, Mary Higgins Clark tells the story of a rare marriage and brings to life the human side of the man who became the "father of our country."

Condition: Used. Good condition. Hardcover. Dust cover. Dust cover edges show edge wear.  Dust cover flaps and pages may be tanning from age. Previous owner's address label is blacked out on the front endpaper. There's a sleeve pasted to the front endpaper with an index card. It's how the previous owner kept track of her books. SIGNED BY THE AUTHOR on the page after the front endpaper.

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