《少年华盛顿》：一部关于华盛顿法国与印第安人战争岁月的动作片

Finally, an action movie about Washington’s French and Indian War years By James Parker “Where shall we look for Wash- ington, the greatest among men,” asked Parson Weems in 1800, “but in America—that greatest Continent, which, ris- ing from beneath the frozen pole, stretches far and wide to the south?” Weems, Wash- ington’s first biographer, was a propagandist of genius— but even he might not have known quite how American he was being when he wrote that line. A smaller country, it is implied— geographically smaller, and smaller in soul— simply could not have handled the monster-truck greatness of this man. It would have ruptured or burst. For greatness like this, only America would have been big enough. …