Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 119 / Number 1
Book reviews
Washington: A Life
By Ron Chernow
New York: Penguin Press, 2010
Reviewed by R. B. Bernstein, New York Law School
The Jeffersons at Shadwell
By Susan Kern
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010
Reviewed by Matthew R. Laird, James River Institute for Archaeology, Inc.
Seeing Jefferson Anew: In His Time and Ours
Edited by John B. Boles and Randal L. Hall
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010
Reviewed by Daniel E. Clinkman, doctoral researcher at the University of
Edinburgh
Borderlines in Borderlands: James Madison and the Spanish-American
Frontier, 1776–1821
By J. C. A. Stagg
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009
Reviewed by Pearl T. Ponce, Ithaca College
Notes from the Ground: Science, Soil, and Society in the American
Countryside
By Benjamin R. Cohen
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2009
Reviewed by Mark D. Hersey, Mississippi State University
A Secession Crisis Enigma: William Henry Hurlbert and "The Diary
of a Public Man"
By Daniel W. Crofts
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2010
Reviewed by Douglas R. Egerton, Le Moyne College
Virginia at War, 1864
Edited by William C. Davis and James I. Robertson, Jr.
Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009
Reviewed by John E. Stealey III, Shepherd University
Into the Crater: The Mine Attack at Peterbsurg
By Earl J. Hess
Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, 2010
Reviewed by Andrew Ward, an independent writer and historian
Bloody Crimes: The Chase for Jefferson Davis and the Death Pageant
for Lincoln's Corpse
By James L. Swanson
New York: William Morrow, 2010
Reviewed by Harold Holzer, senior vice president of The Metropolitan Museum
of Art
The Great Valley Road of Virginia: Shenandoah Landscapes from
Prehistory to the Present
Edited by Warren R. Hofstra and Karl Raitz
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2010
Reviewed by Elizabeth Raymond, University of Nevada, Reno
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