Books by Mac Griswold and Complete Book Reviews

The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island
Mac Griswold.. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $26 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-26629-5
Canoeing a creek off Shelter Island, N.Y., one summer's day in 1984, Griswold (The Golden Age of American Gardens) happened upon an old manor house obscured by enormous boxwoods. As a landscape historian, she knew by the size of the shrubs that they
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The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners * Private Estates * 1890-1940
The Golden Age of American Gardens: Proud Owners * Private Estates * 1890-1940
Mac Griswold, Author, Mack Griswold, Author, Eleanor Weller, With ABRAMS $75 (408p) ISBN 978-0-8109-3358-3
A hybrid mix of social and horticultural history, this book captures the spirit of a largely vanished world. Gardening, as the authors tell us, has long been a favorite pastime of wealthy Americans--a way to do good and to look good. At no time was...
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I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellon
I’ll Build a Stairway to Paradise: A Life of Bunny Mellon
Mac Griswold. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $40 (560p) ISBN 978-0-374-27988-2
Landscape historian Griswold (The Manor: Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island) considers the life of heiress Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon and her lasting influence on American horticulture and design in this impressive study....
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