George Washington Man and Monument
by Cunliffe Marcus
Publisher: Mentor Book 1958
ISBN/ASIN: 0451613120
Number of pages: 253
Description:
Washington has become not merely a mythical
figure, but a myth of suffocating dullness, the victim of
civic elephantiasis. Confronted by the shelves and shelves
of "Washingtoniana" all those sonorous, repetitious, reverential items, the set pieces in adulation that are impossible to read without yawning we seek some sour
antidote to so much saccharine, and tend to agree with
Emerson: Every hero becomes a bore at last. . . .
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