| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 92.1

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Book Review

George Washington's South. Ed. by Tamara Harvey and Greg O'Brien. (Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2004. x, 345 pp. $59.95, ISBN 0-8130-2689-X.)

George Washington's South is the product of a 1999 conference at the University of Mississippi commemorating the bicentennial of Washington's death. The participants took the opportunity to provide a fresh and significant examination of the state of the South in the late eighteenth century. Choosing George Washington as the peg on which to hang a series of essays in regional history was an intriguing if somewhat artificial device (fewer than half of the conference papers deal directly with the first president). In their perceptive introductory essay to the volume, however, the editors, Tamara Harvey and Greg O'Brien, are reasonably convincing in marshaling both Washington and the eighteenth-century South into a mutually compatible study. Certainly as he began his southern tour in the spring of 1791, Washington was well aware of the impact of his presence on a South where many citizens still held serious reservations concerning the new government's policies on territorial expansion and economic and political issues but where the new president was held in high personal esteem.

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