In “By George,” Maira Kalman’s final installment of her year-long New York Times series, “And the Pursuit of Happiness,” Kalman ushers in the new decade with a tribute to the man without whom our nation wouldn’t be.
In this month’s paean, Kalman sorts the truths from the untruths about George Washington, takes us on a pictorial tour of his house, his books and his gardens and muses on Thomas Jefferson’s elusive object of pursuit: Happiness. Enthusiasts of the series do not fret. A collection of Kalman’s artful and searching NYT posts will be released as a book in October 2010.
