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Title: Glorious Lessons

Author: Richard Brookhiser

ISBN: 9780300283310

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2025

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Condition Note: New from the publisher

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The complicated life and legacy of John Trumbull, whose paintings portrayed both the struggle and the principles that distinguished America’s founding moment
“Nuanced, engaging and incisive.”–Stephen Brumwell, Wall Street Journal
“Succinct, both scholarly and direct. . . . Wonderful art history.”–Brian T. Allen, National ReviewJohn Trumbull (1756-1843) experienced the American Revolution firsthand–he served as aid to George Washington and Horatio Gates, was shot at, and was jailed as a spy. He made it his mission to record the war, giving visual form to what most citizens of the new United States thought: that they had brought into the world a great and unprecedented political experiment. His purpose, he wrote, was “to preserve and diffuse the memory of the noblest series of actions which have ever presented themselves in the history of man.” Although Trumbull’s contemporaries viewed him as a painter, Trumbull thought of himself as a Brookhiser tells Trumbull’s story of acclaim and recognition, a story complicated by provincialism, war, a messy personal life, and, ultimately, changing fashion. He shows how the artist’s fifty-year project embodied the meaning of American exceptionalism and played a key role in defining the values of the new country. Trumbull depicted the story of self-rule in the modern world–a story as important and as contested today as it was 250 years ago.