In the name of the father
Subtitle: Washington's legacy, slavery, and the making of a nation
By: François Furstenberg
Publisher: Penguin Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
Subjects: Washington, George, -- 1732-1799 -- Influence; 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 -- United States -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Politics and government -- 1789-1815
Genres: Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-319) and index
Table of contents: title: What the nation was up against; title: The farewell; title: The threats: geographical, political, international; title: Consent, slavery, and the problem of U.S. nationalism; title: 1. The apotheosis of George Washington; title: Washington dies; title: The nation's uncertain future; title: Civic texts: creating a new future; title: Partisanship; title: Nationalism and religion; title: Resignation, gratitude, and consent; title: 2. Washington's family: slavery and the nation; title: George's death and Martha's predicament; title: Slavery and the national family; title: Washington as abolitionist; title: Washington and paternalism; title: Toward a consenting republic?; title: 3. Mason Locke Weems: spreading the American gospel; title: Clergyman to evangelical bookseller: "true philanthropist and prudent speculator"; title: Weems and antipartisanship; title: Weem's Washington: a primer; title: An "ad captandum" book; title: Discriminating the "populi"; title: Selling Marshall's biography: Weems and civic texts; title: 4. Civic texts for slave and free: inventing the autonomous American; title: Schoolbooks ad civic texts: the hidden bestsellers of early American literature; title: From the Columbian orator to the English reader: the making of the autonomous individual; title: Slavery and reading: the specter of uncontrolled slaves; title: Civic texts for slaves, self-control, and the inculcation of slave autonomy; title: 5. Slavery and the American individual; title: Revolution, resistance, and autonomy; title: Fit to be free; title: The extended legacy of civic texts