Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 118 / Number 1
Book reviews
A Topping People: The Rise and Decline of Virginia’s Old Political Elite, 1680–1790
By Emory G. Evans
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009
Reviewed by Albert H. Tillson, Jr., University of Tampa
In the Hands of a Good Providence: Religion in the Life of George Washington
By Mary V. Thompson
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008
Reviewed by Edward G. Lengel, senior editor at the Papers of George Washington at the University of Virginia
James Madison: Philosopher, Founder, and Statesman
Edited by John R. Vile, William D. Pederson, and Frank J. Williams
Athens: University of Ohio Press, 2008
Reviewed by David W. Houpt, CUNY Graduate Center
The Madisons at Montpelier: Reflections on the Founding Couple
By Ralph Ketcham
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2009
Reviewed by David W. Houpt, CUNY Graduate Center
The Mind of a Patriot: Patrick Henry and the World of Ideas
By Kevin J. Hayes
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008
Reviewed by William S. Belko, University of West Florida
Deliver Us From Evil: The Slavery Question in the Old South
By Lacy K. Ford
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
Reviewed by Robert Gudmestad, Colorado State University
Slavery in White and Black: Class and Race in the Southern Slaveholders' New World Order
By Elizabeth Fox-Genovese and Eugene D. Genovese
New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008
Reviewed by Peter S. Carmichael, West Virginia University
Wars within a War: Controversy and Conflict over the American Civil War
Edited by Joan Waugh and Gary W. Gallagher
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009
Reviewed by Angela M. Zombek, doctoral candidate at the University of Florida
A Savage Conflict: The Decisive Role of Guerrillas in the American Civil War
By Daniel E. Sutherland
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2009
Reviewed by Rand Dotson, senior acquisitions editor at Louisiana State University Press
The American Civil War: A Military History
By John Keegan
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009
Reviewed by Bradford A. Wineman, Marine Corps University
Lincoln's Darkest Year: The War in 1862
By William Marvel
New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008
Reviewed by Russell McClintock, St. John's High School, Shrewsbury, Mass.
William Barton Rogers and the Idea of MIT
By A. J. Angulo
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University, 2009
Reviewed by Sean Patrick Adams, University of Florida
250 Years in Fauquier County: A Virginia Story
By Kathi Ann Brown, Walter Nicklin, and John T. Toler
Fairfax: George Mason University Press, 2008
Reviewed by Donna M. Lucey, acting media editor for the Encyclopedia Virginia at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
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