Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 116 / Number 3
Book reviews
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
By Joseph J. Ellis
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007
Reviewed by Jeff Broadwater, Barton College
Mr. Jefferson's Women
By Jon Kukla
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007
Reviewed by Lorri Glover, University of Tennessee
The Liberal Republicanism of John Taylor of Caroline
By Garrett Ward Sheldon and C. William Hill, Jr.
Madison, N.J.: Farleigh Dickinson University Press, 2008
Reviewed by Drew Addison Swanson, University of Georgia
Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700–1860
By Laura Croghan Kamoie
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007
Reviewed by Chris Evans, University of Glamorgan, UK
Race Relations at the Margins: Slaves and Poor Whites in the Antebellum Countryside
By Jeff Forret
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2006
Reviewed by Bradley G. Bond, Northern Illinois University
Lincoln and the Decision for War: The Northern Response to Secession
By Russell McClintock
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008
Reviewed by Harold Holzer, U.S. Lincoln Bicentennial Commission and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Counter-Thrust: From the Peninsula to the Antietam
By Benjamin Franklin Cooling
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2007
Reviewed by Aaron Sheehan-Dean, University of North Florida
Why Confederates Fought: Family and Nation in Civil War Virginia
By Aaron Sheehan-Dean
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007
Reviewed by Mark Grimsley, Ohio State University
Diehard Rebels: The Confederate Culture of Invincibility
By Jason Phillips
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2007
Reviewed by Chandra Manning, Georgetown University
Burying the Dead but Not the Past: Ladies' Memorial Associations and the Lost Cause
By Caroline E. Janney
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008
Reviewed by Victoria E. Ott, Birmingham-Southern College
Causes Won, Lost, and Forgotten: How Hollywood and Popular Art Shape What We Know About the Civil War
By Gary W. Gallagher
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2008
Reviewed by John M. Coski, Museum of the Confederacy
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