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Inventing George Washington: America's Founder, in Myth and Memory de Edward G. Lengel

Inventing George Washington: America's Founder, in Myth and Memory

Autor Edward G. Lengel
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 17 ian 2011
“Lengel’s Washington is the archetypal American soldier—an amateur citizen in arms who struggles to learn an unfamiliar and demanding craft on the job....Outstanding.” —Publishers Weekly(starred review) onThe Glorious Struggle

Editor-in-Chief of the Washington Papers Project  Edward G. Lengel delivers an entertaining and erudite history of America's Founding Father. InInventing George Washington, a captivating counterpart to Lengel’sGeneral George Washington: A Military Life, the historian looks at Washington’s life and writings, at the creation of his mythos, and at what his legacy means for our nation and ourselves.
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ISBN-13: 9780061662584
ISBN-10: 0061662585
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 140 x 210 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.37 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția Harper

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An entertaining and erudite history that offers a fresh look at America's first founding father, the creation of his legend, and what it means for our nation and ourselves
George Washington's death on December 14, 1799, dealt a dreadful blow to public morale. For three decades, Americans had depended on his leadership to guide them through every trial. At the cusp of a new century, the fledgling nation, caught in another war (this time with its former ally France), desperately needed to believe that Washington was—and would continue to be—there for them.
Thus began the extraordinary immortalization of this towering historical figure. InInventing George Washington, historian Edward G. Lengel shows how the late president and war hero continued to serve his nation on two distinct levels. The public Washington evolved into an eternal symbol as Father of His Country, while the private man remained at the periphery of the national vision—always just out of reach—for successive generations yearning to know him as never before.
Both images, public and private, were vital to perceptions Americans had of their nation and themselves. Yet over time, as Lengel shows, the contrasting and simultaneous urges to deify Washington and to understand him as a man have produced tensions that have played out in every generation. As some exalted him, others sought to bring him down to earth, creating a series of competing mythologies that depicted Washington as every sort of human being imaginable.Inventing George Washingtonexplores these representations, shedding new light on this national emblem, our nation itself, and who we are.