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Article: Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- February 1, 2006
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Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia. By Warren M. Billings. Southern Biography. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2004. Pp. x, 290. $49.95, ISBN 0-8071-3012-5.)
This long-awaited biography of Sir William Berkeley, the critical fulcrum of seventeenth-century Virginia politics, is Warren M. Billings's masterpiece. Berkeley's significant tenure as governor spanned almost a quarter century, and Billings has devoted close to forty years studying his life and times. The rewarding result is a brilliant biography as definitive as any can be. Only Billings could have combined decades of difficult, indefatigable detective work in ...