First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity

First Among Men

George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity

By
Maurizio Valsania
Maurizio Valsania
2022 • 416 pages

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791 books

History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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790 books

Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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95 books

Biography

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The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes
A Two-Spirit Journey
Papillon
Charity and Sylvia
Passenger on the Pearl: The True Story of Emily Edmonson's Flight from Slavery
Madame Curie
Angela Davis: An Autobiography

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257 books

History United States

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The Burning Blue: The Untold Story of Christa McAuliffe and NASA's Challenger Disaster
A Queer History of the United States for Young People
The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty

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146 books

American Studies

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Fat Shame
This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War
Sisters: Catholic Nuns and the Making of America
The Second Founding
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy

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112 books

Gender Studies

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Sex and Unisex: Fashion, Feminism, and the Sexual Revolution
Pink and Blue: Telling the Boys from the Girls in America
Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-century French Hermaphrodite
Gender: A Graphic Guide
Grammar and Gender
Butch Is a Noun
The Nearest Exit May Be Behind You

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44 books

Folklore

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The Gathering Dark
Ghosts
Beast: Face-To-Face with the Florida Bigfoot
A Haunted Road Atlas: Sinister Stops and Dangerous Destinations, and True Crime Tales
The Daughters of Ys
Spells for Forgetting
Wake the Bones

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32 books

Historiography

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In Search of Stonewall: The Riots at 50 The Gay & Lesbian Review at 25 Best Essays, 1994-2018
Lies across America
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
The Witches: Salem, 1692

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15 books

Mascilinity Studies

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Boys Will Be Boys
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
Guyland the perilous world where boys become men
Mediocre: The Dangerous Legacy of White Male America
A History of Masculinity: From Patriarchy to Gender Justice
Producing Masculinity: The Internet, Gender, and Sexuality

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22 books

American Civil Religion

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Sarah Johnson's Mount Vernon: The Forgotten History of an American Shrine
Bait and Switch
Success and Luck: Good Fortune and the Myth of Meritocracy
The Cult of the Constitution
Myth America
Lies across America
We Need New Stories: The Myths that Subvert Freedom

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4 books

George Washington

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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
Runaway: The Daring Escape of Ona Judge
Morristown: The Darkest Winter of the Revolutionary War and the Plot to Kidnap George Washington
First Among Men: George Washington and the Myth of American Masculinity