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The First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic by Stephen Howard Browne (review)

The First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic by Stephen Howard... 272 } e A r Ly A mer i CAN L iter Atur e : Vo Lu me 5 7, N u m B er 1 feminists is especially insightful as she explains how to disrupt their ties to white supremacy and create more radical racial constructions of white womanhood, some of which she presents throughout the text. A t - heo retical approach such as hers should be considered when approaching nineteenth-century iterations of race, especially in archival work. Fielder’s work has broad-reaching effects and implications for the twenty-first cen - tury and beyond. tABithA Lowery Coastal Carolina University e F Th irst Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic stepheN howArd BrowNe Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020 230 pp. In the summer of 2001, with biographies of various Founding Fathers topping bestseller charts and capturing Pulitzer Prizes, journalist Evan Thomas coined the term “Founders Chic” to describe the newfound popularity of the founders and their stories. Scholars have since adopted the term—though in academic circles, Founders Chic is a pejorative. Trained historians criticize these hagiographies written, most oen, b ft y journalists for their uncritical celebrations of elite White men and their lack o -f schol http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Early American Literature University of North Carolina Press

The First Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic by Stephen Howard Browne (review)

Early American Literature , Volume 57 (1) – Feb 4, 2022

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University of North Carolina Press
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272 } e A r Ly A mer i CAN L iter Atur e : Vo Lu me 5 7, N u m B er 1 feminists is especially insightful as she explains how to disrupt their ties to white supremacy and create more radical racial constructions of white womanhood, some of which she presents throughout the text. A t - heo retical approach such as hers should be considered when approaching nineteenth-century iterations of race, especially in archival work. Fielder’s work has broad-reaching effects and implications for the twenty-first cen - tury and beyond. tABithA Lowery Coastal Carolina University e F Th irst Inauguration: George Washington and the Invention of the Republic stepheN howArd BrowNe Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020 230 pp. In the summer of 2001, with biographies of various Founding Fathers topping bestseller charts and capturing Pulitzer Prizes, journalist Evan Thomas coined the term “Founders Chic” to describe the newfound popularity of the founders and their stories. Scholars have since adopted the term—though in academic circles, Founders Chic is a pejorative. Trained historians criticize these hagiographies written, most oen, b ft y journalists for their uncritical celebrations of elite White men and their lack o -f schol

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Early American LiteratureUniversity of North Carolina Press

Published: Feb 4, 2022

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