First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity

The first, definitive recasting of George Washington in the context of eighteenth-century practices and ideals of masculinity. It answers the fundamental question that no biography has ever asked in such a direct way: What do we know, really, about Washington as an actual eighteenth-century Virginia upper-class male?--

• | Author: Maurizio Valsania
• | Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• | Publication Date: Oct 11, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 416 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Biography & Autobiography
• | ISBN-10: 142144447X
• | ISBN-13: 9781421444475