A Cock and Bull for Kitty
A Cock and Bull for Kitty, deals with the case of Blair v. Blair, a lawsuit
arising out of the scandalous affair between the colony's last royal governor Lord
Dunmore and nineteen-year-old Kitty Eustace Blair. Writing in the preface, Colonial
Williamsburg Vice President James Horn, says, "It was, as Morrow asserts, a newspaperman's
dream, involving a wealthy and long established family of impeccable reputation,
a distressed, young and attractive wife, and the most intimate sexual details pertaining
to the newlyweds. The upshot turns out to be as unpredictable as the causes of the
action in the first place.
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The Greatest Lawyer That Ever Lived, Revised Edition
The Greatest Lawyer That Ever Lived: Patrick Henry at the Bar of History,
attempts to answer the question of how Henry became, in Thomas Jefferson's words,
"the greatest orator that ever lived." The book further details, in "Patrick Henry and The Puffing Squirt,"
Jefferson's plot, after Henry's death, to destroy his character and reputation for generations unborn.
New material in this edition is an analysis of Henry's shocking defense for owning slaves,
one so artfully offered that Quaker abolitionists found it "very acceptable."
In the Preface to the book, Richard Schumann, Colonial Williamsburg's Patrick Henry,
says "were Henry to read this work, he might very well be heard to say, 'Vindication and redemption at last!'"
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War! Patrick Henry's Finest Hour, Lord Dunmore's Worst
"War!", the 8th book in the Williamsburg in Character series, War! is about war on a small scale, less about people dying than
people just being people. Lord Dunmore’s worst defect, bad judgment,
is a foil for Patrick Henry’s greatest virtue, intrepidity. The grudge
match between good and evil fades to the spectacle of an “humane
good man,” as one loyalist termed Dunmore, laboring to turn himself
into a “monster,” even as his bête noir, Henry, is putting down a mutiny
of his own men. This is truly his finest hour.
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A Wound on His Spirit: Thomas Jefferson's Disastrous Two Years as Governor of Virginia
"A Wound on His Spirit", is the 9th book in the Williamsburg in Character series. The year is 1781, Thomas Jefferson is Governor and Virginia is
enduring its third British invasion. The legislature, led by Patrick
Henry, has fled to avoid capture by Col. Banastre Tarleton’s dragoons,
while Jefferson, warned of their approach, has found himself obliged to
make a pretty good imitation of a panicky plunge into the shrubbery at
Monticello, an act which will later occasion a legislative inquiry into his
fitness to be governor. Jefferson will emerge from the inquiry with his
good name intact, but with “a wound on [his] spirit.” For this, he will
blame Patrick Henry. For his failures as Governor of Virginia, scholars
will blame the times, while insisting that he be held to a lower standard
than that of “a high-powered modern executive.”
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