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001 2006043481
003 DLC
005 20070512083238.0
008 060322s2006 nyua b 001 0 eng
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020 $a9781594200922
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050 00 $aE310$b.F97 2006
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100 1 $aFurstenberg, François.
245 10 $aIn the name of the father :$bWashington's legacy, slavery, and the making of a nation /$cFrançois Furstenberg.
260 $aNew York :$bPenguin Press,$c2006.
300 $a335 p. :$bill. ;$c25 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-319) and index.
505 0 $aWhat 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.
651 0 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government$y1789-1815.
600 10 $aWashington, George,$d1732-1799$xInfluence.
650 0 $aPresidents$zUnited States$vBiography$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aSlavery$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aTextbooks$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aTextbooks$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y18th century.
650 0 $aPolitical culture$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0614/2006043481.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0721/2006043481-d.html
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0721/2006043481-b.html