Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 114 / Number 4
Book reviews
The Mind of the Master Class: History and Faith in the Southern Slaveholders' Worldview
By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005
Reviewed by Michal Jan Rozbicki, St. Louis University
Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country
Michael Novak and Jana Novak
New York: Basic Books, 2006
Reviewed by Peter R. Henriques, George Mason University
Martha Washington: An American Life
By Patricia Brady
New York: Viking, 2005
Reviewed by Cynthia A. Kierner, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
James Madison and the Struggle for a Bill of Rights
By Richard Labunski
New York: Oxford University Press, 2006
Reviewed by Stuart Leibiger, La Salle University
Jefferson and the Press: Crucible of Liberty
By Jerry W. Knudson
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2006
Reviewed by Gordon S. Barker, College of William and Mary and lecturer at Bishop’s University, Canada
Claiming the Pen: Women and Intellectual Life in the Early American South
By Catherine Kerrison
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2006
Reviewed by Sarah Hand Meacham, Virginia Commonwealth University
Along the Maysville Road: The Early American Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West
By Craig Thompson Friend
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2005
Reviewed by John E. Stealey III, Shepherd University
Mr. Lincoln Goes to War
By William Marvel
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2006
Reviewed by Steven J. Ramold, Eastern Michigan University
Bitter Fruits of Bondage: The Demise of Slavery and the Collapse of the Confederacy, 1861–1865
By Armstead L. Robinson
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005
Reviewed by James K. Hogue, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
The Shenandoah Valley Campaign of 1864
Edited by Gary W. Gallagher
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006
Reviewed by Jonathan M. Berkey, Concord University
Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia
By Brian D. McKnight
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2006
Reviewed by Paul Christopher Anderson, Clemson University
Blandford Cemetery: Death and Life at Petersburg, Virginia
By John O. Peters
Petersburg, Va.: The Historic Blandford Cemetery Foundation, Inc., 2005
Reviewed by Caroline E. Janney, Purdue University
Revolution in America: Considerations and Comparisons
By Don Higginbotham
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2005
Reviewed by J. Jefferson Looney, Thomas Jefferson Foundation in Charlottesville
Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change
Edited by Angela Boswell and Judith N. McArthur
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006
Reviewed by Ann Denkler, Shenandoah University
The Virginia State Constitution: A Reference Guide
By John Dinan
Westport, Conn.: Praeger Publishers, 2006
Reviewed by Christopher M. Curtis, Iowa State University
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