Update on Our Virtual Housewarming Party
As many of you know we have been conducting a “Virtual Housewarming Party” in an effort to fill our historic library. We have had a wonderful and generous outpouring of donations! Below are the books we have already received!
But…
One section is lacking more than the rest… our James Madison Section.
These are books that would have been read or owned by him or books about him. To date we have less than 15 books in his section. So we would like to ask, if you would like to donate a book or two to our Historic Library which will become part of the history our this Mansion and Plantation, please check the list below. Please send your dontations to:
Belle Grove Plantation Bed and Breakfast
9221 Belle Grove Drive
King George, Virginia 22485
Thank you so much to all who have donated. It is very much appreciated and truly makes our Historic Library very special!
Wish List
These are books we would like to have for the library.
|
Author |
Title |
| Adams, John | Defence of the Constitutions |
| Burns, Robert | Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect |
| Crevecoeur, J. Hector St. John de | Letters from an American Farmer |
| Filson, John | Discovery, Settlement, & Present State of Kentucky |
| Gibbon, Edward | History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire |
| A. Hamilton, J. Jay, and J. Madison | The Federalist – RECEIVED! |
| Jefferson, Thomas | Notes on the State of Virginia |
| Ledyard, John | Journal of Captain Cook’s Last Voyage to the Pacific Ocean |
| Locke, John | Treatises on Government |
| Longacre, James Barton | National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans |
| Montesquieu | The Spirit of the Laws |
| Morse, Jedidiah | Geography Made Easy |
| Shakespeare, William | Hamlet |
| Plato | The Republic |
| Raleigh, Sir Walter | History of the World |
| Ramsay, David | History of the American Revolution |
| Vattell, Emerich de | The Law of Nations |
| Warville, J.P. Brissot de | The Commerce of America with Europe |
Books about Madison
| Ketcham, Ralph | James Madison: A Biography |
| Banning, Lance | The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the founding of the Federal Republic |
| Brookhiser, Richard | James Madison |
| Burstein, Andrew and Nancy Isenberg | Madison and Jefferson – RECEIVED! |
| Madison, James | Notes of Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787 |
| Mattern, David and H. Schulman | The Selected Letters of Dolley Payne Madison |
| Mattern, David B. | James Madison’s Advice to My Country |
| Rakove, Jack | James Madison and the Creation of the American Republic |
| Stagg, J.C.A. | Mr. Madison’s War: Politics, Diplomacy, & Warfare in the Early American Republic |
| Wood, Gordon | Empire of Liberty |
Here is what we have so far:
The Asent of George Washington – John Ferling
Madison Writings – Jack N. Rakove
A Slave in the White House – Elizabeth Dowling Taylor
The Debate on the Constitution – Bernard Barilyn
James Madison – Garry Wills
War at Our Doors – Rebecca Campbell Light
Images of America Virginia Presidential Homes – Patrick L. O’Neill
Places I Have Known Along the Rappahannock River – Beverley C Pratt
Come Retribution – William A Tidwell
A Perfect Union – Catherine Allgor
Gordonsville Virginia – William H.B. Thomas
Orange Virginia – William H.B. Thomas
Dearest Friend A Life of Abigail Adams – Lynne Withey
Patriots of the UpCountry – William H.B. Thomas
The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
Dolores Claiborne – Stephen King
The Dead Zone – Stephen King
Pet Sematary – Stephen King
The Tommyknockers – Stephen King
Diana Her True Story – Andrew Morton
Memoris of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
Favorite Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne – The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables
Selected Poems – Walt Whitman
Autobiography – Benjamin Franklin
The Law of War and Peace – Hugo Grotius
Fathers and Sons – Iva S. Turgenev
Five Great Dialogues – Plato
On the Nature of Things – Lucretius
Essays and New Atlantis – Francis Bacon
Paradise Lost and Other Poems – John Milton
Anne Boleyn – Anthony Crowell
Selected Lives and Essays – Plutarch
Discourses – Epictetus
Utopia – Thomas More
The Iliad – Homer
On Man in the Universe – Aristotle
Jake Lingle – John Boettiger
The Letters of Madame – Volume I and II – Gertrude Scott Stevenson
100 Dastardly Little Detective Stories – Weinberg, Dziemianowicz, and Greenberg
Best Little Stories of Virginia – C Brian Kelly
Titanic – Colonel Archibald Gracie
Rhett Butler’s People – Donald McCaig
The Gold of Exodus – Howard Blum
The Sum of All Fears – Tom Clancy
Faith of our Founding Fathers – Tim LaHaye
Gun – A Visual History – Dr. Chris McNab
American Soldier – General Tommy Franks
Wild at Heart – John Eldredge
How Did You Do It, Truett – S. Truett Cathy
Gettysburg – Newt Gingrich and William R Forstchen
Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All – Allan Gurganus
Me My County My God – Dr. C Thomas Anderson and Don Enevoldsen
Lincoln on Leadership – Donald T. Phillips
The Civil War Battlefield Guide – The Conservation Fund – Frances H Kennedy
Gettysburg An Alternate History – Peter G. Tsouras
Leadership Lessons of Robert E. Lee – Bil Holton
Run to the Roar – A Fable of Choice, Courage and Hope – J. Randy Forbes
His Excellency George Washington – Joseph J Ellis
Dear Catherine, Dear Taylor – The Civil War letters of a Union Soldier and his Wife – Richard L Kiper
Debt of Honor – Tom Clancy
Tale of a Tiger – R.T. Smith
Dinner with a Perfect Stranger – David Gregory
Command Attention – Col. Keith Oliver USMC (Ret)
Leadership Excellence – Pat Williams with Jim Denney
War – Sebastian Junger
How – Why HOW we do anything means everything – Dov Seidman
Psalm 91- Peggy Joyce Ruth
Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin
No Higher Honor – Condoleezza Rice
Extreme Dreams Depend on Teams – Pat Williams
The Ambition – Lee Strobel
Secrets of the Millonaire Mind – T. Harv Eker
Rembrandt – The Old Testament – Thomas Nelson Publishers
Rembrandt – Life of Christ – Thomas Nelson Publishers
Profiles in Courage – John F. Kennedy
Lady Bird – Jan Jarboe Russell
Dawn’s Early Light – Elswyth Thane
Ronald Reagan and the American Ideal – Steve Penley
Jane Austen’s Persuasion – Jane Austen
Back in the Day – Michael Powell
Enough Good Men – Charles Mercer
Presidential Campaigns – Paul Boller Jr
To Make a Nation – Samuel H. Beer
Turning the World Upside Down – John Tebbel
Washington’s Crossing – David Hackett Fishcher
I Should Be Extremely Happy in Your Company, A Novel of Lewis and Clark – Brian Hall
Undaunted Courage – Stephen E. Ambrose
Legion of the Lost – Jaime Salazar
The American Patriots Almanac – William J. Bennett & John T.F. Cribb
Almost A Miracle – John Ferling
Hurricane of Independence – Tony Williams
The Bold & Magnigicent Dream – Bruce Catton & William B Catton
One Day of Civil War, April 10, 1863 – Robert L Willett Jr.
Grant – William S. McFeely
The Bedford Introduction to Literature – Michael Meyer
A Man on the Moon – Apollo Astronauts – Andrew Chaikin
Einstein – Walter Issacson
Atlas of the World
Law in America – American Hertiage
Don’t Stop the Carnival – Herman Wouk
The Hunt for Red October – Tom Clancy
At Dawn We Slept – Untold Stories of Pearl Harbor – Gordon W. Prange
The DaVinci Code – Dan Brown
The National Geographic Society – 100 years of Adventure and Discovery
Civil War Parks – The Story Behind the Scenery
Life (or something like it) at Mallard High – Greg Martini and Lisa Chelkowski
James Madison – Champion of Liberty and Justice – John P. Kaminski
Slavery at the Home of George Washington – Philip J. Schwarz
50 States of Amercia – Rosanna Hansen and Jan Bloom
Slaver and Freedom in the Age of the American Revolution – Ira Berlin and Ronald Hoffman
The Negro in 18th Century Williamsburg – Thad W. Tate
Race and Revolution – Gary B. Nash
The Federalist – Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay
Madison and Jefferson – Andrew Burstein and Nancy Isenberg
Civil War Letters of Major (Chaplain) James McDonald Campbell – James McDonald Campbell
Don Quxote – Miguel De Cervantes
Our Times – The Twenties – Mark Sullivan
Take Our Advice: A Handbook for Gardening in Northern Virginia – Margaret Fisher & Friends
The American Revolution and the Craft – I. Lewis Langley
Keep What you Earn – Terry Coxon
See I Told You So – Rush Limbaugh
A Field Guide to Wildflowers of Northeastern and North-Central North American – Roger Tory Peterson and Margaret McKenny
Island in the Sun – Alec Waugh
Miss Manners – Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior – Judith Martin
The Best and the Brightest – David Halberstam
Pentagon – Allen Drury
The Family – The Real Story of The Bush Dynasty – Kitty Kelley
Personal History – Katharine Graham
The Rivalr – Mystery at The Army-Navy Game – John Feinstein
Home Front – Patti Davis with Maureen Strange Foster
Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
A Field Guide to the Birds – Eastern Land and Water Birds – Roger Tor Peterson
Washington Behind Closed Doors – John Ehrlichman
The Puzzle Palace – James Bamford
The James River in Richmond – John Bryan
Virginia Living – February 2011
Virginia Living – April 2011
Old Town Crier – January 2013
O Zahir – Paulo Coelho
The New York Times Magazine – June 2013
The Living White House – White House Historical Association
Biblia Sagrada – Nova Traducao and Na Linguagem De Hoje
Dear Socks, Dear Buddy – Hillary Rodham Clinton
The Wit and Wisdom of the Royal Family – Marianne Sinclair and Sarah Litvinoff
New Complete Guide to Executive Manners – Letitia Baldrige
The Art and Etiquette of Gift Giving – Dawn Bryan
Whitehall – Peter Hennessy
The Book of Virtues – William J Bennett
Ike – An American Hero – Michael Korda
Dearest Friend – A Life of Abigail Adams – Lynne Withey
Harry S. Truman – Margaret Truman
An Imperfect God – Henry Wiencek
God and Ronald Reagan – Paul Kengor
Lincoln – Jan Morris
The Diplomacy of The American Revolution – Samuel Flagg Bemis
Simon Bolivar – Gerhard Masur
Treasure Island – Robert Lewis Stevenson
The Wit and Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln – Anthony Gross
Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
Frankenstien – Mary Shelley
Twice- Told Tales – Nathaniel Hawthorne
Four Shakespeare Plays – William Shakespeare
Just Added!
Thank you Caroline from Cumming, Georgia!
French Bleu – Caroline Clemens
Thank you March from Plantation, Florida!
The Pope’s Stone – Marc Kuhn
James Madison – A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation – Jeff Broadwater
Thank you Fred the Cat from England!
This was a special gift from across the pond to Hurley, our Golden and Official Plantation Dog!
Reigning Cats and Dogs – Katharine MacDonogh
Thank you Wally and Beverly from Virginia!
The Concise Illustreated History of the Civil War – James I. Robertson Jr.
Campaigning with Grant – Horace Porter
The Citizen-Soldier – John Beatty
In and Out of Rebel Prisons – Alonzo Cooper
A Rebel War Clerk’s Diary Vol 1 and Vol 2 – John B Jones
Mosby’s Rangers – James J. Williamson
Hard Tack and Coffee – John D. Billings
Reminiscences of the Civil War – John B Gordon
One of Jackson’s Foot Cavalry – John H Worsham
Detailed Minutiae of Soldier Life – Carlton McCarthy
Campaigns of a Non-Combatant – George Alfred Townsend
Destruction and Reconstruction – Richard Taylor
Richmond During the War – Sallie B Putnam
Daring and Suffering – William Piittenger
Battles of the Civil War – Prints
Thank you Ted and Nancy from Virginia!
Nathan the Wise – Bayard Quincy Morgan
Field Guild to Early American Furniture – Thomas H Ormsbee
My Three Years with Eisenhower – Capt Harry C. Bukner USNR
The Flower and the Nettle – Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Portrait: Adlai E. Stevenson – Alden Whitman
The Life of Isbelle Eberhardt – Annette Kobak
Everything to Gain – Jimmy Rosalyn Carter
Reminiscences – Douglas MacArthur
Alice Roosevelt Longworth – Carol Felsenthal
The Hemingway Reader – Ernest Hemingway
Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior – George Washington
Mount Vernon is Ours – Elswyth Thane
The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor – Rear Admiral Robert A Theobald USN
Twenty-five Centuries of Sea Warfare – Jacques Mordal
90 degree South – Paul Siple
Graveyard of the Atlantic – David Stick
The War Dispatches of Stephen Crane – RW Stallman and ER Hagemann
Pictorial History of America Presidents – John and Alice Durant
Across the Ages – Louise I Capen PhD
A History of Shrewbury Parish Church – Katherine Myrick Deprrospo
The Broken Jug – Heinrich von Kleist
Amphitryon – Heinrich von Kleist
The Wonderful Adventure of Nils – Selma Lagerlot
School of Natural Healing – Dr. John R Christopher
Memoirs of a Soviet Ambassador – Ivan Maisky
Housekeeping with Antiques – Lee Parr McGrath
Library of Great American Writing – Vol 1 and 2 – Louis Lentermeyer
Links of Leadership – John Lafin
On a Pig’s Back – John Halgate
To Sail Beyond the Sunset – Robert A. Heinlein
It was a Fire When I Lay Down in it – Robert Felghum
Everyone’s Ark – Sally Patrick Johnson
Rubaiyat of Omar Khyyam – Edward Fitzgerald
The Cardinal – Henry Morton Robinson
Justine – The Marquis de Sade
Deep West – Ernest Haycox
Torquato Tasso – Johann Wolfgang von Geothe
The Valley of the Dragon – Olive Price
Conversations with Goethe – JP Eckermann
Aku Aku – Thor Heyerdahl
Amorous Fiammetta – Giovanni Boccaccio
Zadig and Other Romances – Voltaire
Ten Droll Tales – Honore De Balzac
Madam Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
Manon Lescaut – DC Maylan
The Golden Asse of Lucius Apuleius – William Adlington
The Mimes of the Courtesans – Lucian
Longus Daphnis and Chloe – George Thronley
The Love Books of Ovid – J.Lewis May
The Brass Ring – Bill Mauldin
Percy – Raymond Hitchcock
Seven Miles Down – Jacques Piccard and Robert Dietz
Kon Tiki – Thor Heyerdahl
Drakes Voyage – Kenneth R Andrews
Tales of Philsophy – Felix Marti-Ibanez
Cats, Cats, Cats – John R Gilbert
Persian Fables – George Theiner
Encyclopedia of the Cat – Angela Sayer
The Valley of the Kings – Erik Hornung
Gallopalooza – Da Dry
The Antarctica – Emil Schulthess
Thank you Mark and Mary from Virginia!
The North American Indian – Edward S Curtis
The Odyssey – Homer
Team of Rivals – Doris Kearns Goodwin
The Journals of Lewis and Clark – Bernard DeVoto
The Civil War – Douglas Welsh
Eyewitness to the Civil War – Neil Kagan
The Civil War A Narrative – Fredericksburg to Meridian – Shelby Foote
The Civil War A Narrative – Red River to Appomattox – Shelby Foote
The Civil War A Narrative – Fort Sumter to Perryville – Shelby Foote
Virginia – John Jay Janney’s
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