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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Furstenberg, François.     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.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Furstenberg, François.       by title:      In the name of the f...         MARC Display

In the name of the father : Washington's legacy, slavery, and the making of a nation / François Furstenberg. by Furstenberg, François. New York : Penguin Press, 2006. 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. ISBN:  1594200920 : Description:  335 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. Contents:  What the nation was up against -- The farewell -- The threats: geographical, political, international -- Consent, slavery, and the problem of U.S. nationalism -- 1. The apotheosis of George Washington -- Washington dies -- The nation's uncertain future -- Civic texts: creating a new future -- Partisanship -- Nationalism and religion -- Resignation, gratitude, and consent -- 2. Washington's family: slavery and the nation -- George's death and Martha's predicament -- Slavery and the national family -- Washington as abolitionist -- Washington and paternalism -- Toward a consenting republic? -- 3. Mason Locke Weems: spreading the American gospel -- Clergyman to evangelical bookseller: "true philanthropist and prudent speculator" -- Weems and antipartisanship -- Weem's Washington: a primer -- An "ad captandum" book -- Discriminating the "populi" -- Selling Marshall's biography: Weems and civic texts -- 4. Civic texts for slave and free: inventing the autonomous American -- Schoolbooks ad civic texts: the hidden bestsellers of early American literature -- From the Columbian orator to the English reader: the making of the autonomous individual -- Slavery and reading: the specter of uncontrolled slaves -- Civic texts for slaves, self-control, and the inculcation of slave autonomy -- 5. Slavery and the American individual -- Revolution, resistance, and autonomy -- Fit to be free -- The extended legacy of civic texts. Requests:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 973.41092 Fu Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kahuku P/S Library Adult Nonfiction 973.41092 Furstenberg Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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