The Life of Washington

by Mason L. Weems

Overview

Weems helped to fabricate the image of Washington that has since dominated the American historical imagination and which in its time, secured Washington's fame. This edition includes documents that provide an insight into the construction of American national identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781317455929
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	02/12/2015
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	220
File size:	8 MB

About the Author

Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia, specializes in the history of Revolutionary and Early National America. His most recent works include Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolutions, 1775–1814 (with Nicholas G. Onuf, 1993); The Midwest and the Nation: Rethinking the History of an American Region (with Andrew R.L. Cayton, 1990); and A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America (with Cathy D. Matson, 1990). Onuf is also the editor of Jeffersonian Legacies (1993). He has taught at Columbia University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Southern Methodist University.

Table of Contents

This text presents a selection of essays and speeches written between 1890 and 1930 by Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, A. Philip Randolph and Marcus Garvey. The work analyses African-American political thought, defining the options confronting African Americans in the 20th century.

Editorial Reviews

[Marcus Cunliffe] has provided the first scholarly editing of Parson Weems’ work. He introduces the high-spirited old scamp with more sympathy than he has received in many a year, gives a short account of Weems’ own life drawn from the attenuated facts available, an evaluation of the reliability of the biography, and delivers a kindly judgment: ‘Weems supplied distinct needs for the American imagination.’

New York Herald Tribune