Public lives, private virtues : images of American revolutionary war heroes, 1782-1832

Public lives, private virtues : images of American revolutionary war heroes, 1782-1832

Life of George Washington

New York : Garland, 2000.

xv, 178 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

973.30922 H347 2000

(OCoLC)42061145

Surveys portraits of American revolutionary heroes in books, magazines, and school texts from 1782 to 1832 and relates these sketches to cultural changes of the period. The most interesting of the biographers, Mason Locke Weems, created an original life of Washington, adapting his style to the needs of book buyers, who were put off by the cost of conventional histories and attracted to the books' entertaining stories. During this period magazine editors in the mid-Atlantic and New England states occasionally wrote sketches of heroes to provide readers with examples of virtue, but their major contribution was to publish original graphic portraits.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 107-133) and index.
L2013M120

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