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“[…] Washington is placed in an elaborate setting equal to his importance. In the Grand Manner tradition of portraiture, his is before a velvet drapery swag and a classical column, both alluding to his high rank, and surrounded by the...
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Prints; Screen prints; Money; Greenbacks; Portraits; Men; Presidents; Politicians; Statesmen; Heads of state; Government officials; People associated with politics & government
Wilson, James, 1742-1798; Statesmen--United States--Biography; Constitutional history--United States; United States--Politics and government--1775-1783; United States--Politics and government--1783-1809
This essay is a biography and ideological interpretation of James Wilson. Wilson was an important member of the Revolutionary generation whom historians and political theorists too often overlook. Moving from the rise of historical interest in...