"Andrea Wulf’s beguiling and eloquently written Founding Gardeners is one of those rare books that, by focusing on a single angle of vision, brings to life a whole era and cast of characters … Wulf draws parallels throughout this book that are illuminating, fresh, and immediate … Founding Gardeners is an excellent short history of the early federalist years — portraying this one aspect of these men and their times so vividly and recognizably, that it conjures up the rest", Dallas Morning News