George Washington Written upon the Land
Subtitle: Nature, Memory, Myth, and Landscape
Publisher: West Virginia University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781940425900
Subjects: Washington, george, 1732-1799
Description: "In George Washington Written upon the Land, Philip Levy explores this most famous of American childhoods through its relationship to the Virginia farm where much of it took place. Using approaches from biography, archaeology, folklore, and studies of landscape and material culture, Levy focuses on how different ideas about Washington's childhood functioned--what sorts of lessons they sought to teach, and how different epochs and writers understood the man and the past itself"--Provided by publisher.