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work_bzeez24bi5e77hcjxwb7jxxrfi	Ivy Linton Stabell	Model Patriots: The First Children's Biographies of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin	2013	25	.pdf	application/pdf	10710	565	54	Model Patriots: The First Children's Biographies of George Washington and Benjamin Franklin and created and popularized many of the central anecdotes of Washington's life and mythology, including the famous cherry tree story Weems simultaneously encourages intimacy with the American patriarch; instead of venerating Washington and his public achievements, of the nineteenth century, starting with Weems, political biographies targeting children entered the market, offering the lives of American-born in his study of nineteenth-century American biography that "[b]iographers and critics [of the early republic] sought to proclaim America's biographies, early nineteenth-century American children, though physically a part of the private space, represented the future public and their The cherry tree story, first told in Weems's Life of Washington in 1806, young Washington admits his misdeed, his father echoes the sentiments in the cherry tree ur-text: "Run to my arms! his own life writing to outline a standard of behavior for new generations of Americans: "[Franklin] designs his Autobiography as a means 	./cache/work_bzeez24bi5e77hcjxwb7jxxrfi.pdf	./txt/work_bzeez24bi5e77hcjxwb7jxxrfi.txt