“I would have found young George Washington intolerable. He was a self-important social climber who brewed his own beer and journaled”
Photo: Courtesy of retailer President’s Day isn’t exactly up there as one of the most obvious of gifting holidays , but there are some true George Washington nuts out there, and historian Alexis Coe is here to help. She spent the last few years entrenched in all things Mount Vernon while researching her newest book, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington, and her recommended gifts, like the man that inspired them, are complicated , cool , and a little bit cheeky .
From $9 at Sam's Club Buy George Washington's Rye Whiskey In 1794, Washington was so mad that distillers in Kentucky and Western Pennsylvania weren’t paying a tax on the whiskey they produced, he sidestepped the Constitution and decided to ride out to confront them with the state militia — but only after he’d hired a tailor to make him a uniform modeled after the one he’d worn in the war.
$27 at Mount Vernon Buy Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar $16 Erica Dunbar’s Never Caught: The Washingtons Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge is popular history at its best: She corrects a forgiving narrative that celebrates Washington for emancipating the hundreds of people he enslaved on his will by focusing on how he acted toward his slaves while he was alive.
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