"The culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America's leading historians, Seven Virginians is a narrative history and synthesis of the major scholarship on the period between 1750 and 1830 that examines the place of seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American Revolution: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason, Patrick Henry, and John Marshall. With refreshing candor regarding the problems of the Revolutionary generation, the author charts Virginia's central ...
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"The culmination of a lifetime of erudition by one of America's leading historians, Seven Virginians is a narrative history and synthesis of the major scholarship on the period between 1750 and 1830 that examines the place of seven major Virginians before, during, and after the American Revolution: George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Mason, Patrick Henry, and John Marshall. With refreshing candor regarding the problems of the Revolutionary generation, the author charts Virginia's central role in the nation's early years and the beginnings of the commonwealth's political decline in the early nineteenth century"--
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