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| In the Name of the Father: Washington’s Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of a Nation |
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By Francois Furstenberg. ISBN 1-59420-092-0. Copyright 2006. Hardcover or softcover, with 335 pages including notes and index. Finalist for the 2007 George Washington Book Prize. A revelatory book which immerses the reader in the riotous world of early American pamphlets, broadsides, posters, sermons, and books, whose words and images transformed Washington and his contemporaries into Founding Fathers at the heart of a new nationalism. Creating what Abraham Lincoln called the “mystic chords of memory”, this civic religion was compromised by slavery, an inconvenient truth which unleashed consequences that haunt us still.
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