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Canada and the United States


David Hackett Fischer. Washington's Crossing. (Pivotal Moments in American History). New York: Oxford University Press. 2004. Pp. xi, 564. $35.00.
According to David Hackett Fischer, Emmanuel Leutze got it right in his famous painting. Not only was George Washington really standing up (the boats were flat-bottomed and ankle-deep in icy slush), he was a stand-up guy. The "high example" he and his soldiers set should inspire us. Debunkers need debunking, for "in the late twentieth century, too many scholars tried to make the American past into a record of crime and folly" (p. 379). . . .
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