Join us for this month's book discussion, new members always welcome! Copies of the book can be picked up on our holds shelf next to Circulation for checkout.

We will be meeting both in person and via Zoom. For questions or meeting link please contact Caroline at cbadowski@westerlylibrary.org.

This is a monthly recurring program. Please check our events calendar for additional dates and times.

Travels With George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy by Nathaniel Philbrick 

Does George Washington still matter? The bestselling author argues for his unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new President through the former colonies, now an unsure nation. A new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into one narrative. When George Washington became president in 1798, the United States of America was still a loose and quarrelsome confederation and a tentative political experiment. Washington undertook a tour of the ex-colonies to talk to ordinary citizens about their lives and their feelings about his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thing--Americans. Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called "the infant woody country"--and to see for himself what it had become in the 230 years since.