| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Poca-hontas, and the Heart of a New Nation. By David A. Price. (New York: Knopf, 2003. 305 pp. $25.95, ISBN 0-375-41541-6.)

This trade book, written for the general public, covers a great deal of ground, as the title indicates. It is a biography of John Smith, less so of Pocahontas (due to limited study of Powhatan ethnography), and a history of the English colonization of eastern North America between 1607 and 1620, the time John Smith himself was involved. With that broad a set of interests, the book is not especially useful as a classroom text, especially with its visual drawbacks (see below). So, with the four hundredth anniversary of Jamestown's founding approaching, how useful will it be to tourists who visit the area and those who want to know more about the colony? The answer is: fairly useful, but no more than that.

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