Beschreibung:
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.
"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?"--