"Martha Washington - An American Life"

Martha Washington survives in the popular imagination as a kindly frump and paragon of domestic support.  But when George Washington fell in love with her, she was a wealthy and attractive young widow who could take her pick of the Virginia aristocracy.  In the course of their marriage, Martha would become an able landowner, an indomitable patriot, and her husband's counselor and mainstay.  Includes 16 pages of black & white photographs of period paintings.

Paperback.  276 pages.