François Furstenberg, who was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, is an assistant professor of history at the Université de Montréal.
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A revelatory study of how Americans were bound together as a young nation by the words, the image, and the myth of George Washington and how slavery shaped American nationalism in ways that define and haunt us still. How did people in our country&#... SEE MORE