Dear George Dear Mary

Did you know GEORGE WASHINGTON wrote LOVE POEMS? Did you know he wrote LOVE LETTERS? Did you know he had a FIRST LOVE? Before Martha there was Mary. PROFILED ON CBS Sunday MorningA never-before-told love story of George Washington and heiress Mary Philipse based on historical accounts letters and personal journals by nine-time New York Emmy Award-winning journalist Mary Calvi.Love is said to be an involuntary passion and it is therefore contended that it cannot be resisted. --George WashingtonDid unrequited love spark a flame that ignited a cause that became the American Revolution? Crafted from hundreds of letters witness accounts and journal entries Dear George Dear Mary explores George''s relationship with his first love New York heiress Mary Philipse the richest belle in Colonial America.From elegant eighteenth-century society to bloody battlefields the novel creates breathtaking scenes and riveting characters. Dramatic portraits of the two main characters unveil a Washington on the precipice of greatness using the very words he spoke and wrote and his ravishing love whose outward beauty and refinement disguise a complex inner struggle.Dear George Dear Mary reveals why George Washington had such bitter resentment toward the Brits established nearly two decades before the American Revolution and it unveils details of a deception long hidden from the world that led Mary Philipse to be named a traitor condemned to death and left with nothing. While that may sound like the end ultimately both Mary and George achieve what they always wanted.