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Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Volume 112 / Number 2

Book reviews:

Elizabeth and Mary: Cousins, Rivals, Queens
By Jane Dunn
Reviewed by Mary Hill Cole, Mary Baldwin College

A Little Parliament: The Virginia General Assembly in the Seventeenth Century
By Warren M. Billings
Reviewed by Martin H. Quitt, University of Massachusetts, Boston

Breaking the Backcountry: The Seven Years' War in Virginia and Pennsylvania, 1754–1765
By Matthew C. Ward
Reviewed by Turk McCleskey, Virginia Military Institute

Colonial Virginia's Cooking Dynasty
By Katherine E. Harbury
Reviewed by Lisa C. Tolbert, University of North Carolina at Greensboro

The Religion of the Founding Fathers
By David L. Holmes
Reviewed by Daniel L. Dreisbach, American University

The Founding Fathers and the Politics of Character
By Andrew S. Trees
Reviewed by Rosemarie Zagarri, George Mason University

Wilderness Journey: The Life of William Clark
By William E. Foley
Reviewed by Daniel B. Thorp, Virginia Tech

Winfield Scott and the Profession of Arms
By Allan Peskin
Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College

Lincoln's Last Months
By William C. Harris
Reviewed by Thomas R. Turner, Bridgewater State College

Tell the Court I Love My Wife: Race, Marriage, and Law—An American History
By Peter Wallenstein
Reviewed by Peter W. Bardaglio, Ithaca College

Lancaster County, Virginia: Where the River Meets the Bay
By Carolyn H. Jett
Reviewed by Emily J. Salmon, Library of Virginia

A Pride of Place: Rural Residences of Fauquier County, Virginia
Edited by Kimberly Prothro Williams
Reviewed by Dale Cyrus Wheary, Maymont

Warm Ashes: Issues in Southern History at the Dawn of the Twenty-First Century
Edited by Winfred B. Moore, Jr., Kyle S. Sinisi, and David H. White, Jr.
Reviewed by Glenn Feldman, University of Alabama at Birmingham



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