America and Cosmic Man by Wyndham Lewis

Author:Wyndham Lewis [Lewis, Wyndham]
Language: eng
Format: epub

The nature of the charge brought against Washington by the Jeffersonians was—to put it in the language of today—that he was a fascist. He was a "political general." He was a military man who ran a kind of Court. There is a very inter­esting book in this connection with the title "The Court of Washington"—it describes his ceremonial habits, and those of "Lady Washington," as she was called: the State-barge in which he was, with much pomp, translated from the Jersey shore to Manhattan, the military and diplomatic etiquette, the levees and drawing-rooms which developed, after his in­auguration.

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