PDF⋙ In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation by Francois Furstenberg
In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation by Francois Furstenberg In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation by Francois Furstenberg PDF, ePub eBook D0wnl0ad 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.How did people in our country—North and South, East and West—come to share a remarkably durable and consistent common vision of what it meant to be an American in the first fifty years after the Revolution? How did the nation respond to the problem of slavery in a republic? In the Name of the Father immerses us in the rich, riotous world of what François Furstenberg calls civic texts, the patriotic words and images circulating through every corner of the country in newspapers and almanacs, books and primers, paintings and even th