Maurizio Valsania is a professor of American history at the University of Turin. He is the author of Jefferson's Body: A Corporeal Biography.
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George Washington—hero of the French and Indian War, commander in chief of the Continental Army, and first president of the United States—died on December 14, 1799. But what do we really know about Washington as an upper-class man? Wash... SEE MORE