{"product_id":"george-washingtons-hair-keith-beutler-9780813946504","title":"George Washington's Hair: How Early Americans Remembered the Founders","description":"\u003cp\u003eMostly hidden from public view, like an embarrassing family secret, scores of putative locks of George Washington's hair are held, more than two centuries after his death, in the collections of America's historical societies, public and academic archives, and museums. Excavating the origins of these bodily artifacts, Keith Beutler uncovers a forgotten strand of early American memory practices and emerging patriotic identity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBetween 1790 and 1840, popular memory took a turn toward the physical, as exemplified by the craze for collecting locks of Washington's hair. These new, sensory views of memory enabled African American Revolutionary War veterans, women, evangelicals, and other politically marginalized groups to enter the public square as both conveyors of these material relics of the Revolution and living relics themselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorge Washington's Hair\u003c\/i\u003e introduces us to a taxidermist who sought to stuff Benjamin Franklin's body, an African American storyteller brandishing a lock of Washington's hair, an evangelical preacher burned in effigy, and a schoolmistress who politicized patriotic memory by privileging women as its primary bearers. As Beutler recounts in vivid prose, these and other ordinary Americans successfully enlisted memory practices rooted in the physical to demand a place in the body politic, powerfully contributing to antebellum political democratization.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Keith Beutler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813946506\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813946504\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Virginia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/10\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 296\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 8.00w x 0.90d","brand":"Keith Beutler","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44046231208191,"sku":"9780813946504","price":34.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_0e7b8525-705b-46eb-a48e-aef2e808e0cc.jpg?v=1684983387","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/george-washingtons-hair-keith-beutler-9780813946504","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}