User:StatesManship

StatesManship is the Internet name or "handle" or "nickname" for James Renwick Manship, Sr., the man who is the "Second to None" George Washington Living Historian, as author/compiler of the book that is the Prose Poem, Praise Poem with Pictures titled "Second to None: America's Washington" (available from Amazon.com) and author of other books and plays on the Founding Fathers.

As a professional speaker, StatesManship talks on the topics of this Constitution for the United States of America, the president of the Constitutional Convention, primarily as George Washington, about 95 per cent of the time. StatesManship also portrays other Founding Fathers and Statesmen, such as Thomas Jefferson (3 per cent of the time), with 2 per cent all others including John Jefferson, Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, John Marshall, Patrick Henry, James Monroe, and George Whitefield. Manship speaks to public, private, parochial, charter, Christian, and home schools, and to colleges, public, private and military. In addition, Manship speaks to Public Rallies, Conventions, Conferences, Civic groups, Churches and Synagogues, all across America. For executive or corporate meetings, the Legacy of Leadership Lessons of George Washington is most fitting. You can see some photos and videos at www.BookAStar.com/GeorgeWashington or www.GeneralWashington.org.

Manship had planned, organized and co-hosted the C-SPAN televised "George Washington "Man of the Millennium" Book Festival in the City of Alexandria on 26 February 2000, separate from, yet while he was serving on the Mount Vernon Board of Visitors. Manship then set off on a CROSSINGS: All Across America Journey with Jesus by George! Prayer Pilgrimage.  That GW prayer pilgrimage went 4 times from Sea to Shining Sea, 30,000 miles in 5 months, to the 48 state capitols to kneel and pray the powerful, passionate prayers in the penmanship of George Washington for the Citizens of that state and their elected servants. The GW Prayer Pilgrimage was an incredible education about the impact of Washington in this nation.  In 2005, Manship compiled a book Prayer Warrior Washington that is a Prayer Book-Work Book - Picture Book, that has many photos from the 2000 Prayer Pilgrimage.

In 2008, Manship created as a potential fundraiser for the Civil Air Patrol a pocket size book of George Washington's Rules of Civility and Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation, that he titled "A Civil Air for America". It has some unique features not found in any other version of the Rules of Civility. Manship as a volunteer is a Major in the Civil Air Patrol "stationed" at the Mount Vernon Composite Squadron at Davison Army Airfield on Fort Belvoir, very near Mount Vernon in Virginia.

Prior to his current "role" as General Washington who almost became a Midshipman in the British Navy, former Midshipman Manship was a Midshipman in the U. S. Navy from 1970 to 1974, eventually being promoted to service as a Navy Commanding Officer, 1983 to 1985, of a reserve cryptology unit that won the 1985 Delaney Award competition as the best in the nation. Manship was then assigned to manage 19 such units from Baltimore to San Juan, and was twice nominated for a White House Fellowship (1985, 1986) by Admirals for whom he worked. On Navy duty travel orders in 1987, Manship suffered food poisoning, fell and struck his head, was taken to the emergency room, was relieved of his regional duties, assigned to Youth Programs and the Chaplains Office, and discharged from the Navy in 1988.

As the Director of Projects for the American Defense Institute in the Heritage Building in Washington in 1989-1990, Manship created the theme "Defend America: VOTE!" for the Military Absentee Vote project.

Manship moved to Alexandria in 1988, after which he "met Alexandria's Favorite Son - George Washington" and thereupon, he read his first book on Washington (a glaring indicator of the huge void in his education in the public schools of America). Yet by 1998 had become a scholar on Washington, so was appointed by Governor James S. Gilmore to the Mount Vernon Board of Visitors from 1998 to 2001, when he wrote a Letter to the Editor that refuted poor scholarship in an article written by an employee of the Mount Vernon Estate.

Manship was invited by Regent University Theater to present a scene from his play "A Revolutionary Christmas" in December 2003. While in Virginia Beach, Manship was elected to serve as president of a recently formed bi-weekly newspaper, The Virginia Chronicle, and as editor of its "Constitution and the Courts" page. After working for a few months to get advertising revenues up enough to pay for printing the paper, but not enough for proper salaries for the staff, Manship left the severely underfunded start-up, and then worked for a professional speaker and internet entrepreneur, Tom Antion.

Upon being asked to be a keynote speaker for the 2004 Navy Chaplains Conference at Founders Inn, Manship began three years of historical research to establish the proper design to re-create the true First Navy Flag, also known as the Washington Cruisers Flag, but best known as the Liberty Tree Flag with its motto, or credo, "Appeal to Heaven". A reconstruction of that flag was commissioned by Manship for the 2008 Independence Day Parade in Washington, and has been seen extensively in parades since that first appearance. For more on the First Navy Flag, go to www.FirstNavyFlag.US. In the fall of 2012, the Library of Congress granted a Copyright to the research and design of this re-created Liberty Tree Flag, but not the motto, "Appeal to Heaven" that is in a letter scholar Manship found in Library of Congress files, and referenced in his work.

Manship's 2010 book "Second to None: America's Washington" is a "Prose Poem, Prose Poem, with Pictures" is a much extended version (70 pages) of his Op-Ed in The Washington Times in December 1999. The covers of Second to None: America's Washington are seen in The New York Times photo by Drew Angerer on page A17 in the Saturday, 6 November a.d. 2010 issue, to illustrate a wonderful article by Samuel G. Freedman, that mentioned StatesManship's "Constitution Concordance" of themes of Godly government woven in this Constitution related to Bible Verses. The New York Times also had photos of George Washington Living Historian Manship on 3 November, 13 September and online issue of 12 September. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/us/politics/06religion.html?_r=1&ref=bible

One of those Drew Angerer 13 September photos of GW - StatesManship in front of the U.S. Capitol was reprinted as the Table of Contents image in the "Tea Party" issue of TIME magazine of 25 September, and as a two page spread in the 25 October issue of Newsweek. Newsweek printed a two page spread of GW StatesManship was in the 17 March 2003 issue of the magazine. AP, ABC News, Reuters, Mother Jones, Washington Post, Washington Times, and others have published many photos of GW - StatesManship, over the years, who has to some extent, become the "Face" of the Tea Party Patriots.

In 2010, as George Washington, StatesManship marched in the Governor McDonnell Inauguration Parade, the March for Life, Memorial Day Parade, Independence Day Parade (standing for much of the way in the bed of a 1934 Ford pickup truck), Boy Scout Centennial Parade, the 9-11 and 9-12 Marches on Washington, the 8-28 Restoring Honor Rally, and has been in parades in Buena Vista, Charlottesville, & Lynchburg, VA; Manchester, NH; New York, NY; Baltimore, MD; and Post Falls, ID.

There are over 50 websites, over 50 YouTube and 50 Google Videos that document parts of the work of StatesManship. At age 12 in 7th grade, Manship showed an early and extensive interest in History with a 168 page paper on the War Between the States, where he was mentored by the Publisher of The Atlanta Constitution, Ralph McGill, who won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Writing in 1959, who let the young Manship use books from his personal library. Manship grandparents, Ledlie William Conger and Ruth Renwick Dunlop Conger published a book in 1973 titled "Sketching and Etching Georgia" that combined pen & ink drawings, pencil sketchings, and historical word sketches to tell a lovely history of Georgia.

An overview of the work of StatesManship is at www.StatesManship.US. So StatesManship "marches" across his MacBook keyboard with his extensive writing on George Washington and other Founding Fathers, and marches in size 13 leather boots all across the country in parades to revive the "Spirit of George Washington" in the minds and hearts of Americans.

James Renwick Manship, Sr. or "StatesManship" can be contacted at: W.I.S.E.= Washington Institute for Statesmanship Education Box 1776, Mount Vernon, Virginia 22121-1776 Washington@Statesmanship.US 703-NRA-1776 (NRA = 672, and stands for both National Reform Association and National Rifle Association.) .