George Washington and his ragtag Continental Army may have heroically defeated the mercenary Hessians at Trenton in December , but the old soldier is now in danger of being permanently unmanned -- by the combined forces of political neo-Victorianism and commercial publishing. In one of the silliest but unfortunately representative episodes of the recurring controversy over state textbook adoptions, the best-known artistic representation of General Washington in action -- Emanuel Leutze 's painting Washington Crossing the Delaware -- has been intentionally emasculated in history textbooks because bluenoses and bureaucrats are afraid students might imagine George Washington had a penis. Last week -- after politicized arguments over "factual errors" and "omissions" and a hurly-burly of last-minute revisions by publishers desperate to capture the Texas market -- the State Board of Education gave its final blessing to the social studies textbooks to be used by Texas students for the next several years. In the three books, Leutze's legendary painting -- a masterpiece of 19th-century romantic nationalism, and a piece of American history in its own right -- reflects the scars of the textbook wars. The original painting, in the epic proportions of 12 by 21 feet, portrays an idealized Washington fearlessly standing in a rowboat guided eastward by his men through the ice-filled, treacherous waters of the Delaware River, while behind him stand two soldiers holding a furled U.
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