| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Virginia's American Revolution: From Dominion to Republic, 1776–1840. By Kevin R. C. Gutzman. (Lanham: Lexington, 2007. xii, 235 pp. Cloth, $70.00, ISBN 978-0-7391-2131-3. Paper, $28.95, ISBN 978-0-7391-2132-0.)

Revolutionary and early national Virginians consistently insisted that the Old Dominion would be a self-governing entity. It would not be ruled by a distant oppressive regime in London or by a federal government located in New York, Philadelphia, or even Washington, D.C. In Virginia's American Revolution, Kevin R. C. Gutzman, an associate professor of history at Western Connecticut State University, also argues that Virginia's nineteenth-century ruling elite was by no means pleased with the implemention of republicanism in the state because it had brought pedestrian leaders into office and because it coincided with a decline in the commonwealth's political and economic standing.

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