Mount Vernon Love Story

Always a lover of history, Mary Higgins Clark wrote this extensively
researched biographical novel and titled it Aspire to the Heavens, after
the motto of George Washington's mother. Published in 1969, the book
was more recently discovered by a Washington family descendant and
reissued as Mount Vernon Love Story. Dispelling the widespread belief
that although George Washington married Martha Dandridge Custis, he
reserved his true love for Sally Carey Fairfax, his best friend's wife,
Mary Higgins Clark describes the Washington marriage as one full of
tenderness and passion, as a bond between two people who shared their
lives -- even the bitter hardship of a winter in Valley Forge -- in
every way. In this author's skilled hands, the history, the love, and
the man come fully and dramatically alive.