Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; 1. Bright Examples: Biographies of Revolutionary Heroes; Conventions of Eighteenth-Century Biography; Mason Locke Weems and His Market; Weems' Biography of George Washington; Weems' Revision of 1808; 2. ""Domestick Subjects"": Revolutionary Heroes in American Magazines; George Washington; Other Heroes; 3. Forming Republican Citizens: Schoolbook Accounts of Revolutionary Heroes; The Nature of School Readers in the Early Republic; Weems' Life of George Washington as a Schoolbook; Illustrations of Heroes
Written Accounts of Heroes4. Portraits of Virtue and the Advent of Realism; Psychological Theories of Example; Theories of Example in American Education; The Portrayal of Affectionate Relationships; The Persistence of Classical Republican Virtues; The Advent of Realism; Notes; Illustrations; Index
