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Hugh Blair Grigsby
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Discourse On the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell
Reproduction of the original: Discourse On the Life and Character of the Hon. Littleton Waller Tazewell by Hugh Blair Grigsby
Hugh Blair Grigsby
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Dominion of Memories
For decades, the Commonwealth of Virginia led the nation. The premier state in population, size, and wealth, it produced a galaxy of leaders: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Mason, Marshall. Four of the first five presidents were Virginians. And yet by the middle of the nineteenth century, Virginia had become a byword for slavery, provincialism, and poverty. What happened? In her remarkable book, Dominion of Memories, historian Susan Dunn reveals the little known story of the decline of the Old Dominion. While the North rapidly industrialized and democratized, Virginia's leaders turned their backs on the accelerating modern world. Spellbound by the myth of aristocratic, gracious plan...
