Mount Vernon: Washington's Home and the Nation's Shrine (Classic Reprint) Hardcover -

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Excerpt from Mount Vernon: Washington's Home and the Nation's Shrine The most difficult thing in the world, sir, is to get possession of a fact; and to few perhaps does this come home with more force than to those who un dertake to extract the truth from the traditions and glamour of romance that have grown around so much of the life and customs of Colonial America. The gratifi cation, perhaps the pride, engendered by the accounts that have come down to us of the imposing dignity of the lives of our Colonial ancestors and the elegance of their homes has sometimes received a rude shock as we have gazed for the first time on the Mansions in which they lived; and while, on the one hand, this is true; on the other, it is equally true that some of those old worthies whose names are scarce remembered, and who may perhaps have sealed their letters with their thumbs, are shown by careful research to have pos sessed homes as stately as any, and to have contributed as prodigally to Virginia's reputation for hospitality and heroism as did those whose names have gone sound ing down the ages; and as it is the task of the faithful historian to make history as written accord with his tory as performed, so in the field he has chosen to occupy, this is what Mr. Wilstach has endeavored to accomplish, and I believe he has achieved it. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.