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Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Volume 113 / Number 2

Book reviews

Washington's Crossing
By David Hackett Fischer
Reviewed by Jean B. Lee, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Smoking and Culture: The Archaeology of Tobacco Pipes in Eastern North America
Edited by Sean M. Rafferty and Rob Mann
Reviewed by David Muraca, George Washington's Frederickburg Foundation

Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom: Revolution and Rebellion on a Virginia Plantation
By Rhys Isaac
Reviewed by Kevin R. Hardwick, James Madison University

Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas
By David Hackett Fischer
Reviewed by Erika Doss, University of Colorado at Boulder

The Founders on God and Government
Edited by Daniel L. Dreisbach, Mark D. Hall, and Jeffry H. Morrison
Reviewed by Brent Tarter, Library of Virginia

His Excellency: George Washington
By Joseph J. Ellis
Reviewed by David Waldstreicher, Temple University

General George Washington: A Military Life
By Edward G. Lengel
Reviewed by Paul David Nelson, Berea College

The Pearl: A Failed Slave Escape on the Potomac
By Josephine F. Pacheco
Reviewed by Robert Gudmestad, University of Memphis

Alexandria Goes to War: Beyond Robert E. Lee
By George G. Kundahl
Reviewed by Carol Kettenburg Dubbs

Chimborazo: The Confederacy's Largest Hospital
By Carol C. Green
Reviewed by Nancy Schurr, Chattanooga State Technical Community College

A Shattered Nation: The Rise and Fall of the Confederacy, 1861–1868
By Anne Sarah Rubin
Reviewed by Ken Fones-Wolf, West Virginia University

Cities of the Dead: Contesting the Memory of the Civil War in the South, 1865–1914
By William Blair
Reviewed by Michael Perman, University of Illinois at Chicago

Blue Laws and Black Codes: Conflict, Courts, and Change in Twentieth-Century Virginia
By Peter Wallenstein
Reviewed by Derek Charles Catsam, University of Texas of the Permian Basin

From the Grassroots to the Supreme Court: Brown v. Board of Education and American Democracy
Edited by Peter F. Lau
Reviewed by Brian Daugherity, University of Richmond and Richard Bland College



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