Besides book research, I rode Amtrak from California to Philadelphia, visited Valley Forge, Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, Mount Vernon, Colonial Williamsburg, the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, the Washington Monument, New York City, Mendocino, the Doe Library at UC Berkeley, Citizens Bank Park in Philadelphia, and AT&T Park in San Francisco. I am grateful for the assistance of Mary V. Thompson, Research Historian at the Fred W. Smith National Library for the Study of George Washington at Mount Vernon, who answered a number of questions for me about Washington’s voice, accent, demeanor, and relationship with Martha.
Many books served as invaluable resources during research for Finding George Washington. I am grateful to the authors for their scholarship, insight, and imagination:
Timothy B. Allen, George Washington, Spymaster
Applewood’s Pictorial America, George Washington 1732-1799
Ron Chernow, Washington: A Life
Mary Higgins Clark, Mount Vernon Love Story: A Novel of George and Martha Washington
Alexis Coe, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
Joseph J. Ellis, His Excellency: George Washington
Newt Gingrich, William R. Forstchen and Albert S. Hanser, Valley Forge: George Washington and the Crucible of Victory
James Gleick, Time Travel
Phil Hornshaw and Nick Hurwitch, So You Created a Wormhole: The Time Traveler’s Guide to Time Travel
Hugh Howard, The Painter’s Chair
Paul Johnson, George Washington: The Founding Father
Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger, George Washington’s Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
Len Lamensdorf, The Ballad of Billy Lee: The Story of George Washington’s Favorite Slave
Mark Lardas, George Washington: Leadership, Strategy, Conflict
Jack E. Levin, George Washington: The Crossing
Carla Killough McClafferty, The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a Presidential Icon
Joseph Plumb Martin, Memoir of a Revolutionary Soldier
Ellen G. Miles, George and Martha Washington: Portraits from the Presidential Years
Sarah E. Mitchell, Men’s Clothing 1760-1785
Paul J. Nahin, Time Machines: Time Travel in Physics, Metaphysics, and Science Fiction
Paul J. Nahin, Time Travel: A Writer’s Guide to the Real Science of Plausible Time Travel
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler’s Wife
Official Guidebook, George Washington’s Mount Vernon
Gary Paulsen, The Rifle
Clinton Rossiter, The American Presidency
John Thorn, Baseball in the Garden of Eden: The Secret History of the Early Game
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court
George Washington, George-isms
George Washington, The Journal of Major George Washington
George Washington, Quotations of George Washington
H. G. Wells, The Time Machine and Other Works
Henry Wiencek, An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America