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In the name of the father : Washington's legacy, slavery, and the making of a nation / François Furstenberg.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Furstenberg, François.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Washington, George, 1732-1799.
- Textbooks.
- History.
- Slavery--Political aspects.
- Slavery.
- Presidents.
- United States--Politics and government--1789-1815.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- Washington, George, 1732-1799--Influence.
- Washington, George.
- Presidents--United States--Biography--History and criticism.
- Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History--18th century.
- Slavery--Political aspects--United States--History--19th century.
- Textbooks--United States--History--18th century.
- Textbooks--United States--History--19th century.
- Political culture--United States--History--18th century.
- Political culture.
- Political culture--United States--History--19th century.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 335 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Penguin Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- A revelatory study of how Americans were bound together as a young nation by the words, the image, and the myth of George Washington and how slavery shaped American nationalism in ways that define and haunt us still.
- Contents:
- What the nation was up against
- The farewell
- The threats: geographical, political, international
- Consent, slavery, and the problem of U.S. nationalism
- 1. The apotheosis of George Washington
- Washington dies
- The nation's uncertain future
- Civic texts: creating a new future
- Partisanship
- Nationalism and religion
- Resignation, gratitude, and consent
- 2. Washington's family: slavery and the nation
- George's death and Martha's predicament
- Slavery and the national family
- Washington as abolitionist
- Washington and paternalism
- Toward a consenting republic?
- 3. Mason Locke Weems: spreading the American gospel
- Clergyman to evangelical bookseller: "true philanthropist and prudent speculator"
- Weems and antipartisanship
- Weem's Washington: a primer
- An "ad captandum" book
- Discriminating the "populi"
- Selling Marshall's biography: Weems and civic texts
- 4. Civic texts for slave and free: inventing the autonomous American
- Schoolbooks ad civic texts: the hidden bestsellers of early American literature
- From the Columbian orator to the English reader: the making of the autonomous individual
- Slavery and reading: the specter of uncontrolled slaves
- Civic texts for slaves, self-control, and the inculcation of slave autonomy
- 5. Slavery and the American individual
- Revolution, resistance, and autonomy
- Fit to be free
- The extended legacy of civic texts.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [247]-319) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1594200920
- OCLC:
- 66527258
- Publisher Number:
- 9781594200922
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