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Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Volume 110 / Number 1

Book reviews:

Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Volume Two (Bland-Cannon).
Edited by Sara B. Bearss, John T. Kneebone, J. Jefferson Looney, Brent Tarter, and Sandra Gioia Treadway
Reviewed by Mark F. Odintz, Texas State Historical Association

Commonwealth Catholicism: A History of the Catholic Church in Virginia
By Gerald P. Fogarty, S.J.
Reviewed by Samuel C. Shepherd, Jr., Centenary College of Louisiana

Facing East from Indian Country: A Native History of Early America.
By Daniel K. Richter
Reviewed by James Taylor Carson, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

"The Tyranny of Printers": Newspaper Politics in the Early American Republic.
By Jeffrey L. Pasley.
Reviewed by Richard B. Kielbowicz, University of Washington

John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court
By R. Kent Newmyer
Reviewed by Scott D. Gerber, Ohio Northern University College of Law.

The Irish in the South, 1815-1877
By David T. Gleeson
Reviewed by Hasia R. Diner, New York University

Look Away! A History of the Confederate States of America.
By William C. Davis
Reviewed by Brian R. Dirck, Anderson University

The Union Divided: Party Conflict in the Civil War North.
By Mark E. Neely, Jr.
Reviewed by William G. Shade, Lehigh University

Enemies of the Country: New Perspectives on Unionists in the Civil War South.
Edited by John C. Inscoe and Robert C. Kenzer
Reviewed by J. Michael Rhyne, University of Cincinnati

Lee in the Shadow of Washington.
By Richard B. McCaslin
Reviewed by Lynda Lasswell Crist, The Papers of Jefferson Davis, Rice University

Fredericksburg! Fredericksburg!
By George C. Rable
Reviewed by James A. Ramage, Northern Kentucky University

Extraordinary Circumstances: The Seven Days Battles
By Brian K. Burton
Reviewed by John Herbert Roper, Emory & Henry College

Raising the Hunley: The Remarkable History and Recovery of the Lost Confederate Submarine.
By Brian Hicks and Schuyler Kropf
Reviewed by Brendan Foley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic: First Naval Actions of the Civil War
By Jack D. Coombe
Reviewed by Brendan Foley, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Lee & His Army in Confederate History
By Gary W. Gallagher
Reviewed by Michael B. Ballard, Mississippi State University

Intimate Strategies of the Civil War: Military Commanders and Their Wives.
Edited by Carol K. Bleser and Lesley J. Gordon
Reviewed by Steven Ramold, Virginia State University

Regarding Ellen Glasgow: Essays for Contemporary Readers
Edited by Welford Dunaway Taylor and George C. Longest
Reviewed by Linda Wagner-Martin, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill



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