Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 119 / Number 3
Book reviews
Inventing George Washington: America's Founder, in Myth and Memory
By Edward G. Lengel
New York: HarperCollins, 2011
Reviewed by John P. Kaminski, Center for the Study of the American Constitution at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election that Brought on the Civil War
By Douglas R. Egerton
New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010
Reviewed by Harold Holzer, Abraham Lincoln Bicentennial Foundation
America Aflame: How the Civil War Created a Nation
By David Goldfield
New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2011
Reviewed by George C. Rable, University of Alabama
Managing the Mountains: Land Use Planning, the New Deal, and the Creation of a Federal Landscape in Appalachia
By Sara M. Gregg
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2010
Reviewed by Ryan W. Kirk, Elon University
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