Book Giveaway: A Mount Vernon Love Story by Mary Higgins Clark

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Charming, insightful and immensely entertaining in its unique presentation of one of America’s legendary figures, Mount Vernon Love Story, by famed suspense writer Mary Higgins Clark, shows the reader the man behind the legend, a man of flesh, blood and passion, and in the author’s skilled hands, the story and the man come fully and dramatically alive.
Mary Higgins Clark’s interest in George Washington was first sparked by a radio series she was writing in the 1960s, called “Portrait of a Patriot,” vignettes of American presidents.
Always a lover of history, she wrote this biographical novel — her first book — and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, which was the family motto of George Washington’s mother. With all events, dates, scenes and characters based on historical research, the book was published in 1969.
Its recent discovery by a Washington family descendent led to its reissue under its new title, Mount Vernon Love Story.
In researching George Washington’s life, Mary Higgins Clark was surprised to find the engaging man behind the pious legend. He was a giant of a man in every way, starting with his physical height. In an era when men averaged five foot seven inches, he towered over everyone at six foot three. He was the best dancer in the colony of Virginia. He was also a master horseman, which was why the Indians gave him their highest compliment: “He rides his horse like an Indian.”
She dispels the widespread belief that although George Washington married an older woman, a widow, his true love was Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend’s wife. Martha Dandridge Custis was older, but only by three months — she was twenty-seven to his twenty-six when they met. Mary Higgins Clark describes their relationship from their first meeting, their closeness and his tenderness toward her two children. Martha shared his life in every way, crossing the British lines to join him in Boston and enduring with him the bitter hardship of the winter in Valley Forge. As Lady Bird Johnson was never called Claudia, Martha Washington was never known as Martha. Her family and friends called her Patsy. George always called her “my dearest Patsy” and wore a locket with her picture around his neck.
In Mount Vernon Love Story, Mary Higgins Clark tells the story of a rare marriage and brings to life the human side of the man who became the “father of our country.”
So this will be my SECOND book giveaway. I will be running this until March 18th. So get your entries in. Winner will be selected useing Random.org. Theres a few ways to get an Entry in..
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61 thoughts on “Book Giveaway: A Mount Vernon Love Story by Mary Higgins Clark”

  6. I know alot of triva about our President whose likeness is carved on Mt. Rushmore, whose the only President a state is named for, as well as seven mountains and nine colleges…and whose Presidential mansion was in NYC….
    however, I can’t wait to read about the personal side of the man.
    This book sounds wonderful.

    pumpkinlady430@yahoo.com

  34. I would like to be in this contest, i have never read any book by Mary Higgins Clark and this sounds like a good one to start with.
    photoquest(at)bellsouth(dot)net

  52. I had no idea that he was so tall! I would love to read this book to find out more about their love story.

    Thanks for the chance!

    dbkagrayson2002 at gmail dot com

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