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His sentimental and often fictional biography became a best seller, the first in a seemingly endless stream of studies of the

Rise & elevation were due to his Great Virtues.” Weems was on to something. My plan! I give his history, sufficiently minute” and “go on to show that his unparalleled “Washington, you know is gone! Millions are gaping to read something about him.

“I’ve got something to whisper in your lug,” Weems wrote George Washington’s corpse was scarcely a month in its grave when an enterprising minister from Maryland named Mason Locke Weems made a pitch to a Philadelphia publisher.