The Life of Washington

Weems helped to fabricate the image of Washington that has since dominated the American historical imagination and which in its time, secured Washington's fame. This edition includes documents that provide an insight into the construction of American national identity.

About the Author

Peter S. Onuf, Thomas Jefferson Memorial Foundation Professor of History at the University of Virginia, specializes in the history of Revolutionary and Early National America. His most recent works include Federal Union, Modern World: The Law of Nations in an Age of Revolutions, 1775-1814 (with Nicholas G. Onuf, 1993); The Midwest and the Nation: Rethinking the History of an American Region (with Andrew R.L. Cayton, 1990); and A Union of Interests: Political and Economic Thought in Revolutionary America (with Cathy D. Matson, 1990). Onuf is also the editor of Jeffersonian Legacies (1993). He has taught at Columbia University, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and Southern Methodist University.