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Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Volume 115 / Number 2

Book reviews

"I Tremble for My Country": Thomas Jefferson and the Virginia Gentry
By Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006
Reviewed by Francis D. Cogliano, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Thomas Jefferson: Reputation and Legacy
By Francis D. Cogliano
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2006
Reviewed by Ronald L. Hatzenbuehler, Idaho State University

The Rosenwald Schools of the American South
By Mary S. Hoffschwelle
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2006
Reviewed by George F. Bagby, Hampden-Sydney College

Building Houses Out of Chicken Legs: Black Women, Food, and Power
By Psyche A. Williams-Forson
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006
Reviewed by Kenneth W. Goings, Ohio State University

Sexuality, Politics, and Social Control in Virginia, 1920–1945
By Pippa Holloway
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006
Reviewed by Susan Ferentinos, Organization of American Historians

Dictionary of Virginia Biography, Volume 3 (Caperton–Daniels)
Edited by Sara B. Bearss, John G. Deal, Donald W. Gunter, Marianne E. Julienne, John T. Kneebone, Brent Tarter, and Sandra Gioia Treadway
Richmond: Library of Virginia, 2006
Reviewed by Elizabeth Brand Monroe, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis



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