| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family: The Tuckers of Virginia, 1752–1830. By Phillip Hamilton. (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2003. xiv, 250 pp. $35.00, ISBN 0-8139-2164-3.)

How far historians have traveled from consensus school arguments that emphasized the fundamental conservatism of the American Revolution. Historians now see the Revolution as a transforming event that produced fundamental changes in the new nation. In The Making and Unmaking of a Revolutionary Family, Phillip Hamilton uses the extended Tucker clan as a prism through which to view the broader changes taking place in the early republic, and he argues that within the lifetime of the family patriarch, St. George Tucker, Virginia and the southern families that lived through these tumultuous times were substantively transformed. If not convincing in all particulars, Hamilton effectively reveals the complex legacy of independence in Virginia.

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