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02021aam a22003738i 4500 001 85D4E5E059AA11ED98ECE2DC3BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20221101010034 008 220326s2022 mdu b 001 0beng 010 $a 2021054973 020 $a 142144447X 020 $a 9781421444475 040 $a LBSOR/DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d DLC $d SILO 050 00 $a E312.17 $b .V35 2022 082 00 $2 23/eng/20220413 100 1 $a Valsania, Maurizio, $d 1965- $e author. 245 10 $a FIRST AMONG MEN : $b GEORGE WASHINGTON AND THE MYTH OF AMERICAN MASCULINITY / $c Maurizio Valsania. 263 $a 2208 264 1 $a Baltimore : $b Johns Hopkins University Press, $c 2022. 300 $a pages cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a The American giant -- Testing himself -- A taste for cruelty and war -- A body in pain -- Checking the body -- The love letters -- The meaning of love (and marriage) -- A sentimental male -- A maternal father -- A person of fine manners -- The message ofhis clothing -- Astride the great stage -- Consummation -- Giants die as well. 520 $a "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?"-- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Washington, George, $d 1732-1799 $x Influence. 650 0 $a Masculinity $z United States $x History $y 18th century. 650 0 $a Presidents $z United States $v Biography. $9 74350 651 0 $a United States $x Social life and customs $y 1775-1783. $9 76738 941 $a 5 952 $l GZPE631 $d 20240305021849.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20230104013939.0 952 $l TDPH826 $d 20230104010625.0 952 $l XXPH787 $d 20221207011009.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20221101010846.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=85D4E5E059AA11ED98ECE2DC3BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search