Summary of Nathaniel Philbrick 's Travels with George

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 Travel writers say that you must go solo to appreciate the object of your travel. I was relieved to find out that Steinbeck was not as strict about solitude as he claimed to be. He regularly traveled with his wife, who was about to retire from her second career as the executive director of a local nonprofit.

#2 I wanted to find out what Washington got right, and what tools he and his generation had left us to begin to build a better nation. I wanted to understand how he attempted to bind us together into a lasting union of states.

#3 The country was gripped by two extraordinary events: a global pandemic that made the freedom of movement we had once taken for granted impossible, and a demand for social justice that inspired protests across the country.

#4 George Washington was elected president of the United States in 1789, but he knew that the position would only bring expectations of private happiness that he could not meet. He felt like a culprit who was going to the place of his execution.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669383772

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Insights on Nathaniel Philbrick's Travels with George

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Travel writers say that you must go solo to appreciate the object of your travel. I was relieved to find out that Steinbeck was not as strict about solitude as he claimed to be. He regularly traveled with his wife, who was about to retire from her second career as the executive director of a local nonprofit.

#2

I wanted to find out what Washington got right, and what tools he and his generation had left us to begin to build a better nation. I wanted to understand how he attempted to bind us together into a lasting union of states.

#3

The country was gripped by two extraordinary events: a global pandemic that made the freedom of movement we had once taken for granted impossible, and a demand for social justice that inspired protests across the country.

#4

George Washington was elected president of the United States in 1789, but he knew that the position would only bring expectations of private happiness that he could not meet. He felt like a culprit who was going to the place of his execution.

#5

The toller, a small dog that looks like a fox, was created by the French in Acadia in the seventeenth century. It was the British who forced the Acadians to leave in 1751, but some refused to leave and instead melted into the scarcely inhabited interior.

#6

Mount Vernon is the final stop on our tour. We visit the tree that was planted by George Washington, and his favorite part is the Tulip Poplar. He would have loved to stay at Mount Vernon, but he was too busy to foxhunt anymore.

#7

George Washington had excellent health, aside from his teeth. He was always up early, went for walks under Mount Vernon’s piazza, and never ate to excess. He was also the father of the American mule, which served the U. S. military in Afghanistan in the twenty-first century.

#8

While it is true that Washington had a lot of dental problems, he also had a lot of problems with teeth transplants. This was because he would gather together his enslaved workers and have one