George Washington Slept Here: Colonial Revivals and American Culture, 1876-1986Harvard University Press, 1988 - 453 páginas Combining art history, material culture analyses, and social history, Marling examines the image of George Washington in popular culture. She looks at how Americans have in one way or another sought to "get right" with Washington during the past 100 years. Marling points out how Washington is an American hero most closely tied to artifacts, relics, material possessions, and style. She traces the descent of high art into such popular forms as posters, plaques, packages, and billboards, to illuminate how Washington's iconic meaning has influenced styles and tastes. She also shows how politicians seek to co-opt his incorruptible image--in campaigns that celebrated Calvin Coolidge's Puritan simplicity, Herbert Hoover's engineering talents, and in Reagans second inaugural where he is depicted as praying in the snow at Valley Forge. ISBN 0-674-34951-2: $39.95. |
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... story , like the story of Washington's prayer in the snow , a story every generation rewrote anew to account for its choices , its heroes - a story told to rehearse the unfolding chapters of its own autobiography . Gilbert Stuart's ...
... story , like the story of Washington's prayer in the snow , a story every generation rewrote anew to account for its choices , its heroes - a story told to rehearse the unfolding chapters of its own autobiography . Gilbert Stuart's ...
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... story : like the cherry tree and the dollar - thrown - across - the - Rap- pahannock stories , like his desperate prayer in an hour of need , like his ability to have " slept " almost everywhere , the story of Washington's homespun ...
... story : like the cherry tree and the dollar - thrown - across - the - Rap- pahannock stories , like his desperate prayer in an hour of need , like his ability to have " slept " almost everywhere , the story of Washington's homespun ...
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... story of George Washington and his Tory sweet- heart began twenty years earlier , when the young Virginia colonel met " Polly " Philipse in New York City on his way back home from Boston , where he had been transacting military business ...
... story of George Washington and his Tory sweet- heart began twenty years earlier , when the young Virginia colonel met " Polly " Philipse in New York City on his way back home from Boston , where he had been transacting military business ...
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Two Prayers in the Snow | 1 |
Teatime at Valley Forge | 25 |
Colonial History Domesticated | 53 |
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