Wendell Garrett
Before the White House, there was Mount Vernon, the home of this nation's first president -- George Washington. Profiled here for the first time in full color by award-winning photographers Robert Lautman and Edward Owen and thoroughly documented ... [... more]
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Carol Highsmith
Carol M. Highsmith is a modern day historical photographer who has captured the rebirth of Washington's Pennsylvania Avenue corridor and Union Station, the splendor of the Library of Congress, George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate, the U.S. ... [... more]
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Art Buchwald
Art Buchwald was born in Mount Vernon, New York, and raised in Hollis, Queens. After serving as a marine in the Pacific during World War II and attending the University of Southern California, Buchwald left the United States for Paris. There, he ... [... more]
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Christian Cameron
Inspired by a little-known historical fact-that American slaves fought alongside the British in the Revolutionary War-this epic novel tells of a Mount Vernon slave who joins a Loyalist black regiment charged with defeating his former master on ... [... more]
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Christopher Stasheff
Christopher Stasheff spent his early childhood in Mount Vernon, New York, but spent the rest of his formative years in Ann Arbor, Michigan. He has always had difficulty distinguishing fantasy from reality and has tried to compromise by teaching ... [... more]
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