<p><span class="deck">The Polish poet stayed twelve days and saw it all—the great gardens, pretty Nellie Custis, the distillery, the toy Bastille, the wretched slave huts, the great man himself denouncing the irritating French</span></p>
<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Mortally ill as his century dwindled to its close, Washington was helped to his grave by physicians who clung to typical eighteenth-century remedies. But he died as nobly as he had lived</span> </span></p>
<p><span class="deck">Richard Brookhiser has spent four years trying to capture for the television screen the character of one of the greatest Americans.</span></p>
<p>In looking at the restoration of the front parlor, we can learn a lot about the Washington family, life in colonial America, and the art of historic preservation.</p>
