Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His LegacyWhen George Washington became president in 1789, 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 his new government, and to imbue in them the idea of being one thingAmericans. In the fall of 2018, Nathaniel Philbrick embarked on his own journey into what Washington called the infant woody country to see