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Author : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:32026392
Author : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015026646870
Author : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:32026392
Author : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : LCCN:32026392
Author : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$B538546
Author : US Army Military History Research Collection
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 748 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105112117085
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2608 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-01
Category : Government publications
ISBN : IND:30000133147920
Author : US Army Military History Research Collection,Joyce L. Eakin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : United States
ISBN : MINN:31951D007034221
Author : United States. Superintendent of Documents
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2606 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Government publications
ISBN : RUTGERS:39030018822629
Author : Stephen F. Knott
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2002-02-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700614196
Alexander Hamilton and the Persistence of Myth explores the shifting reputation of our most controversial founding father. Since the day Aaron Burr fired his fatal shot, Americans have tried to come to grips with Alexander Hamilton's legacy. Stephen Knott surveys the Hamilton image in the minds of American statesmen, scholars, literary figures, and the media, explaining why Americans are content to live in a Hamiltonian nation but reluctant to embrace the man himself. Knott observes that Thomas Jefferson and his followers, and, later, Andrew Jackson and his adherents, tended to view Hamilton and his principles as "un-American." While his policies generated mistrust in the South and the West, where he is still seen as the founding "plutocrat," Hamilton was revered in New England and parts of the Mid-Atlantic states. Hamilton's image as a champion of American nationalism caused his reputation to soar during the Civil War, at least in the North. However, in the wake of Gilded Age excesses, progressive and populist political leaders branded Hamilton as the patron saint of Wall Street, and his reputation began to disintegrate. Hamilton's status reached its nadir during the New Deal, Knott argues, when Franklin Roosevelt portrayed him as the personification of Dickensian cold-heartedness. When FDR erected the beautiful Tidal Basin monument to Thomas Jefferson and thereby elevated the Sage of Monticello into the American Pantheon, Hamilton, as Jefferson's nemesis, fell into disrepute. He came to epitomize the forces of reaction contemptuous of the "great beast"-the American people. In showing how the prevailing negative assessment misrepresents the man and his deeds, Knott argues for reconsideration of Hamiltonianism, which rightly understood has much to offer the American polity of the twenty-first century. Remarkably, at the dawn of the new millennium, the nation began to see Hamilton in a different light. Hamilton's story was now the embodiment of the American dream-an impoverished immigrant who came to the United States and laid the economic and political foundation that paved the way for America's superpower status. Here in Stephen Knott's insightful study, Hamilton finally gets his due as a highly contested but powerful and positive presence in American national life.
Author : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$C22123
Author : Lydia Mattice Brandt
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780813939261
Over the past two hundred years, Americans have reproduced George Washington’s Mount Vernon plantation house more often, and in a greater variety of media, than any of their country’s other historic buildings. In this highly original new book, Lydia Mattice Brandt chronicles America’s obsession with the first president’s iconic home through advertising, prints, paintings, popular literature, and the full-scale replication of its architecture. Even before Washington’s death in 1799, his house was an important symbol for the new nation. His countrymen used it to idealize the past as well as to evoke contemporary--and even divisive--political and social ideals. In the wake of the mid-nineteenth century’s revival craze, Mount Vernon became an obvious choice for architects and patrons looking to reference the past through buildings in residential neighborhoods, at world’s fairs, and along the commercial strip. The singularity of the building’s trademark piazza and its connection to Washington made it immediately recognizable and easy to replicate. As a myriad of Americans imitated the building’s architecture, the Mount Vernon Ladies’ Association carefully interpreted and preserved its fabric. Purchasing the house in 1859 amid intense scrutiny, the organization safeguarded Washington’s home and ensured its accessibility as the nation’s leading historic house museum. Tension between popular images of Mount Vernon and the organization’s "official" narrative for the house over the past 150 years demonstrates the close and ever-shifting relationship between historic preservation and popular architecture.In existence for roughly as long as the United States itself, Mount Vernon’s image has remained strikingly relevant to many competing conceptions of our country’s historical and architectural identity.
Author : United States George Washington Bicentennial Commission
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UCAL:$C167943
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190456696
When it comes to the Founding Fathers, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, and Alexander Hamilton are generally considered the great minds of early America. George Washington, instead, is toasted with accolades regarding his solid common sense and strength in battle. Indeed, John Adams once snobbishly dismissed him as "too illiterate, unlearned, unread for his station and reputation." Yet Adams, as well as the majority of the men who knew Washington in his life, were unaware of his singular devotion to self-improvement. Based on a comprehensive amount of research at the Library of Congress, the collections at Mount Vernon, and rare book archives scattered across the country, Kevin J. Hayes corrects this misconception and reconstructs in vivid detail the active intellectual life that has gone largely unnoticed in conventional narratives of Washington. Despite being a lifelong reader, Washington felt an acute sense of embarrassment about his relative lack of formal education and cultural sophistication, and in this sparkling literary biography, Hayes illustrates just how tirelessly Washington worked to improve. Beginning with the primers, forgotten periodicals, conduct books, and classic eighteenth-century novels such as Tom Jones that shaped Washington's early life, Hayes studies Washington's letters and journals, charting the many ways the books of his upbringing affected decisions before and during the Revolutionary War. The final section of the book covers the voluminous reading that occurred during Washington's presidency and his retirement at Mount Vernon. Throughout, Hayes examines Washington's writing as well as his reading, from The Journal of Major George Washington through his Farewell Address. The sheer breadth of titles under review here allow readers to glimpse Washington's views on foreign policy, economics, the law, art, slavery, marriage, and religion-and how those views shaped the young nation.. Ultimately, this sharply written biography offers a fresh perspective on America's Father, uncovering the ideas that shaped his intellectual journey and, subsequently, the development of America.
Author : Albert Bushnell Hart
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105048938299