Fredericksburg: How America Perfected the Art of Selling Its Bloody History to the Highest Bidder
**Fredericksburg: Where History Goes to Get Selfie-Sticked and Monetized** The international press corps has witnessed many peculiar American rituals—Super Bowl Sunday, Black Friday stampedes, the quadrennial democratic pageant they call “finding the least objectionable billionaire to govern us”—but few spectacles rival the anthropological wonder of Fredericksburg, Virginia, during tourist season. Here, in this colonial hamlet…