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Virginia Magazine of History and Biography

Volume 120 / Number 4

Book reviews

Patrick Henry: First Among Patriots
By Thomas S. Kidd
New York: Basic Books, 2011
Reviewed by Kevin J. Hayes, University of Central Oklahoma

James Madison: A Son of Virginia and a Founder of the Nation
By Jeff Broadwater
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012
Reviewed by Richard Labunski, University of Kentucky

Martha Jefferson Randolph, Daughter of Monticello: Her Life and Times
By Cynthia A. Kierner
Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012
Reviewed by Christopher J. Leahy, Keuka College

Almost Free: A Story about Family and Race in Antebellum Virginia
By Eva Sheppard Wolf
Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012
Reviewed by J. Calvin Schermerhorn, Arizona State University

Ministers and Masters: Methodism, Manhood, and Honor in the Old South
By Charity R. Carney
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2011
Reviewed by Jewel L. Spangler, University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada

Routes of War: The World of Movement in the Confederate South
By Yael A. Sternhell
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2012
Reviewed by Peter S. Carmichael, Gettysburg College

Lee and His Generals: Essays in Honor of T. Harry Williams
Edited by Lawrence Lee Hewitt and Thomas E. Schott
Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2012
Reviewed by Kaylynn L. Washnock, doctoral student at the University of Georgia


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