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Article: Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- November 1, 2008
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Dominion of Memories: Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia. By Susan Dunn. (New York: Basic Books, c. 2007. Pp. [x], 310. $27.50, ISBN 978-0-465-01743-0.)
Scholars have long agreed that Virginia steadily descended from the state's Revolutionary heights. Virginia's leaders after the Revolution turned inward and rejected the dynamic United States of the nineteenth century in favor of classical republicanism, aristocratic agrarianism, and patriarchal anti-capitalism. After leading the early republic, Virginia's gentry dug in its heels while losing prosperity and influence, finally dragging Virginia into the doomed Confederacy. Susan Dunn now adds a ...