[PDF.22xg] George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century

George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century

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 | #3439388 in Books |  2003-05-17 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.43 x.51 x5.51l,.65 | File type: PDF | 224 pages

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||39 of 41 people found the following review helpful.| Kind of Bland|By pnotley@hotmail.com|Robert Darnton's latest book consists of a series of assorted essays. Most are from the nineties, though one is from the eighties and one is a reworking of a chapter of his doctoral dissertation in the sixties. Darnton starts with a defense of the Enlightenmnet, then goes on to discuss information networks in ancien regime France ("the e|From Publishers Weekly|As Princeton history professor Darnton notes in his introduction, "everything about the eighteenth century is strange, once you examine it in detail." His pleasingly eccentric book of essays offers many surprising supporting examples. But

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 characteristic learning and bracing insight, Robert Darnton shows us that the Enligh...

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