Questions

1. How would you describe the tone of Jill Lepore’s review? Do you think she is respectful of Ron Chernow’s work? Is she respectful of George Washington? Explain your answer.

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   Questions: - How would you describe the tone of Jill Lepore’s review? Do you think she is respectful of Ron Chernow’s work? Is she respectful of George Washington? Explain your answer.
2. The “flagrant” injury Lepore claims Jared Sparks caused (par. 1) turns out to be Sparks’s editing of Washington’s papers. According to Lepore, he “corrected Washington’s spelling and punctuation. What he found badly expressed, he rewrote.” Do you think it is appropriate to edit the words of a president? Why do you think Sparks rewrote Washington’s words?

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   Questions: - The “flagrant” injury Lepore claims Jared Sparks caused (par. 1) turns out to be Sparks’s editing of Washington’s papers. According to Lepore, he “corrected Washington’s spelling and punctuation. What he found badly expressed, he rewrote.” Do you think it is appropriate to edit the words of a president? Why do you think Sparks rewrote Washington’s words?
3. Why do you think Lepore spends so much time discussing other biographies of Washington in this review of Chernow’s book?

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   Questions: - Why do you think Lepore spends so much time discussing other biographies of Washington in this review of Chernow’s book?