Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
Volume 120 / Number 1
Book reviews
American Crisis: George Washington and the Dangerous Two Years After Yorktown, 1781–1783
By William M. Fowler, Jr.
New York: Walker and Company, 2011
Reviewed by Peter R. Henriques, George Mason University
Tom Paine's America: The Rise and Fall of Transatlantic Radicalism in the Early Republic
By Seth Cotlar
Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2011
Reviewed by Brian Steele, University of Alabama at Birmingham
American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America
By David O. Stewart
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011
Reviewed by James E. Lewis, Jr., Kalamazoo College
Money over Mastery, Family over Freedom: Slavery in the Antebellum Upper South
By Calvin Schermerhorn
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011
Reviewed by Jeff Forret, Lamar University
The Dogs of War: 1861
By Emory M. Thomas
New York: Oxford University, 2011
Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
1861: The Civil War Awakening
By Adam Goodheart
New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011
Reviewed by Ethan S. Rafuse, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College
Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World
By Charles D. Thompson, Jr.
Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2011
Reviewed by Kevin T. Barksdale, Marshall University
Lost Communities of Virginia
By Terri Fisher and Kirsten Sparenborg
Earlysville, Va.: Albemarle Books, 2011
Reviewed by John O. Peters, an independent author and architectural photographer
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