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George Washington's False Teeth - An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
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George Washington's False Teeth - An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century (Paperback)
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George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one
tooth in his mouth, a lower left bicuspid. The Father of His
Country had sets of false teeth that were made of everything but
wood, from elephant ivory and walrus tusk to the teeth of a fellow
human. With characteristic learning and bracing insight, Robert
Darnton shows us that the Enlightenment had false teeth alsothat it
was not the Father of Our Modern World, responsible for all its
advances and transgressions. In restoring the Enlightenment to
human scale, Darnton locates its real aims, ambitions, and
significance. So too with the French Revolution, another icon of
the eighteenth century, approached here through the gossip, songs,
and broadsides that formed the political nervous system of Paris in
the Old Regime. Figures we think we knowVoltaire, Jefferson,
Rousseau, Condorcet, even historians themselvesemerge afresh in
Darnton's hands, their vitality, if not their teeth, intact. 17 b/w
illustrations.
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