Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 117 / Number 4
Book reviews
Nature and History in the Potomac Country: From Hunter-Gatherers to the Age of Jefferson
By James D. Rice
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009
Reviewed by Drew A. Swanson, University of Georgia
The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon
By John Ferling
New York: Bloomsburg Press, 2009
Reviewed by Jeffry H. Morrison, Regent University
The Founding Fathers Reconsidered
By R. B. Bernstein
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
Reviewed by Jeff Broadwater, Barton College
Sir Samuel Hood and the Battle of the Chesapeake
By Colin Pengelly
Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2009
Reviewed by David F. Riggs, Colonial National Historical Park
Kitchens, Smokehouses, and Privies: Outbuildings and the Architecture of Daily Life in the Eighteenth-Century Mid-Atlantic
Michael Olmert
Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2009
Reviewed by Barbara Burlison Mooney, University of Iowa
The Baylors of Newmarket: The Decline and Fall of a Virginia Planter Family
By Thomas Katheder
Bloomington: iUniverse, 2009
Reviewed by Kenneth Cohen, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
In the Cause of Liberty: How the Civil War Redefined American Ideals
Edited by William J. Cooper, Jr., and John M. McCardell, Jr.
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2009
Reviewed by Michael T. Caires, University of Virginia
The President and His Biographer: Woodrow Wilson and Ray Stannard Baker
By Merrill D. Peterson
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2007
Reviewed by Samuel C. Shepherd, Jr., Centenary College of Louisiana
The Photographic Legacy of Frances Benjamin Johnston
By Maria Elizabeth Ausherman
Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2009
Reviewed by Betsy Fahlman, Arizona State University.
Historic Virginia Gardens: Preservation Work of the Garden Club of Virginia, 1975–2007
By Margaret Page Bemis and Roger Foley
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009
Reviewed by Frank L. Robinson, executive director of the Lewis Ginter Botanical Garden, Richmond
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