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?"--

About the author

Maurizio Valsania (CHAPEL HILL, NC) is a professor of American history at the University of Turin. He is the author of Jefferson's Body: A Corporeal Biography.

Product details

• Authors: Maurizio Valsania, Valsania Maurizio
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2022
• EAN: 9781421444475
• ISBN: 978-1-4214-4447-5
• No. of pages: 416
• Subjects: Fiction > Gift books, albums, perpetual calendars, postcard booklets; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Presidents & Heads of State, HISTORY / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800), Autobiography: historical, political & military, Gender studies, gender groups, History of the Americas, Biography: historical, political and military, founding fathers;presidential biography;Washington biography