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The Property of the Nation - George Washington's Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President (Paperback)
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The Property of the Nation - George Washington's Tomb, Mount Vernon, and the Memory of the First President (Paperback)
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Finalist: George Washington Prize George Washington was an affluent
slave owner who believed that republicanism and social hierarchy
were vital to the young country's survival. And yet, he remains
largely free of the "elitist" label affixed to his contemporaries,
as Washington evolved in public memory during the nineteenth
century into a man of the common people, the father of democracy.
This memory, we learn in The Property of the Nation, was a
deliberately constructed image, shaped and reshaped over time,
generally in service of one cause or another. Matthew R. Costello
traces this process through the story of Washington's tomb, whose
history and popularity reflect the building of a memory of
America's first president-of, by, and for the American people.
Washington's resting place at his beloved Mount Vernon estate was
at times as contested as his iconic image; and in Costello's
telling, the many attempts to move the first president's bodily
remains offer greater insight to the issue of memory and hero
worship in early America. While describing the efforts of
politicians, business owners, artists, and storytellers to define,
influence, and profit from the memory of Washington at Mount
Vernon, this book's main focus is the memory-making process that
took place among American citizens. As public access to the tomb
increased over time, more and more ordinary Americans were drawn to
Mount Vernon, and their participation in this nationalistic ritual
helped further democratize Washington in the popular imagination.
Shifting our attention from official days of commemoration and
publicly orchestrated events to spontaneous visits by citizens,
Costello's book clearly demonstrates in compelling detail how the
memory of George Washington slowly but surely became The Property
of the Nation.
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