Ebook: American Eden: from Monticello to Central Park to our backyards: what our gardens tell about who we are

Founding gardens (1600-1826) -- A walk in the park: suburbia and the sublime (1820-1890) -- The golden age: modernity and its discontents (1880-1915) -- Forward to the past: the long romance of the arts & crafts garden (1850-1925) -- California and the modern garden (1920-1960s) -- Art confronts nature, redux: triumphs and anxieties of landscape architecture (1940s-2000s) -- All our missing parts: money and virtue in the go-go years.;Offers an inclusive definition of the garden, considering intentional landscapes that range from domestic kitchen gardens to city parks and national parks, suburban backyards and golf courses, public plazas and Manhattan's High Line park, reclaimed from freight train tracks. And it exposes the overlap between garden-making and painting, literature, and especially architecture-the garden's inseparable sibling-to reveal the deep interconnections between the arts and their most inspired practitioners.