Sign in with Facebook
Loading...
George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century
A master historian's excavations into the past unearth a world that is unexpected and compelling. George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left bicuspid. The Father of His Country had sets of false teeth that were made of everything but wood, from elephant ivory and walrus tusk to the teeth of a fellow human. With characte...more
Hardcover, 192 pages
Published
May 1st 2003
by W. W. Norton & Company
(first published 1997)
Friend Reviews
To see what your friends thought of this book,
please sign up.
This book is not yet featured on Listopia.
Add this book to your favorite list »
Community Reviews
(showing
1-30
of
87)
This book is a collection of essays on the Enlightenment era of the 18th Century. Of particular interest is Chapter 2, which deals with "news networks" in 18th Century Paris. Newspapers as we know them didn't exist and anything of that character would in fact have been illegal. So how did people learn about what was going on? Darnton's history, pieced together relying on administrative and police records of the era, is fascinating. Every person working in the news business would benefit from thi...more
I'm almost done with this book. It's a series of essays about French-American intellectual exchanges in the 18th century. Darnton writes in such a lovely style, it's almost as fast a read as a novel. I'm interested in the whole aspect of Enlightenment ideas that these guys -- Jefferson, Tom Paine, Ben Franklin, and Rousseau, Voltaire, Bayle, and many others whom I had barely heard of, used as the basis of the democratic movement they were working on. Of course, the democracy they were building d...more
view 1 comment
Aug 02, 2011
Ethan Green
added it
I was very disappointed in this book- mainly because the title is so misleading. First, the book barely mentions George Washington, and only gives a passing reference to American history in general. It was, in fact, a vignette on certain aspects of the French revolution. Second, it is certainly not "unconventional". I was also disappointed because the book was uninteresting and unengaging.
From the title and cover art, I was expecting something much lighter, some cutesy stories about the Founding Fathers, but this is actually several more scholarly essays on the Eighteenth Century with a focus on the American and French Revolutions.
Non male, ma direi che sono interessanti soltanto tre o forse quattro saggi, sugli otto che compongono il volume.
944.034 Dar
Apr 19, 2013
eclat
marked it as to-read
Apr 01, 2013
Anna Helton
marked it as to-read
Feb 03, 2013
Sheila Williams
added it
Jan 25, 2013
Amanda Sanfelice
marked it as to-read
Jan 16, 2013
Jamie
is currently reading it
Jan 13, 2013
Hubert
is currently reading it
Dec 18, 2012
Sandra De regt
marked it as to-read
Dec 08, 2012
Matthew
added it
Nov 25, 2012
Aaron
marked it as to-read
Nov 12, 2012
Deco Santos
marked it as to-read
Sep 23, 2012
Aninha Duarte
marked it as to-read
Sep 22, 2012
Arlene
marked it as to-read
There are no discussion topics on this book yet.
Be the first to start one »
Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the Harvard University Library
More about Robert Darnton...
Share This Book
No trivia or quizzes yet. Add some now »
