George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century by Robert Darnton

George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century

Robert Darnton

224 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective slow-paced
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George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left bicuspid. The Father of His Country had sets of false teeth that were made of everything but wood, from elephant ivory and walrus tusk to the teeth of...

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