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by Cullen Murphy
Art Director: Michaela Sullivan // Houghton Mifflin Company
George Washington, marble sculpture, c. 1840 by
Horatio Greenough (1805-1852); in the National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. / Art Resource, NY