In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of A Nation

Furstenberg, François; François Furstenberg

ISBN 10: 0143111930 / ISBN 13: 9780143111931

Published by A Penguin Book/Published by the Penguin Group, New York, Toronto, ON, Canada, London, et al., 2007

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335 pp. An excellent, spotlessly clean copy and dust jacket! Clean, fresh, sharp, tight, essentially and virtually flawless copy and dust jacket with crisp pages, clean text, and very light shelf wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In the Name of the Father: Washington's Legacy, Slavery, and the Making of A Nation
• Publisher: A Penguin Book/Published by the Penguin Group, New York, Toronto, ON, Canada, London, et al.
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0143111930
• ISBN 13: 9780143111931
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Illustrator: Mark Melnick (Cover Design); Amanda Dewey (Design)
• Printing: 1st Printing
• Condition: Like New
• Seller catalogs:
  • History, American & US History
  • Academic, Scholarly, Research
  • Biography, Autobiography

About this title

Synopsis

In this revelatory and genuinely groundbreaking study, François Furstenberg sheds new light on the genesis of American identity. Immersing us in the publishing culture of the early nineteenth century, he shows us how the words of George Washington and others of his generation became America's sacred scripture and provided the foundation for a new civic culture, one whose reconciliation with slavery unleashed consequences that haunt us still. A dazzling work of scholarship from a brilliant young historian, In the Name of the Father is a major contribution to American social history.

About the Author

François Furstenberg was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington. After graduating with a BA from Columbia University, he worked for several years in Paris before pursuing his graduate studies in history at The Johns Hopkins University, where he earned his Ph.D. in 2003. He was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in U.S. history at Cambridge University, England, for one year, after which he moved to Montreal, Canada, where he is an assistant professor of history at the Université de Montréal.