# Dominion of Memories

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- Authors: [Susan Dunn](https://www.bookquiver.com/susan-dunn)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2008-03-25

## Description

During the Revolutionary Period, and in the early days of the Union, Virginia was the nation's most promising state. It produced a galaxy of America's most important founders and statesmen: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Marshall, and many others. And yet, by the middle of the nineteenth century, Virginia had become little more than a byword for poverty, slavery, and economic stagnation. The decline was dramatic and startling. What happened? In Dominion of Memories , Susan Dunn chronicles the precipitous decline of America's most promising state. A gloriously written tale of the Founding Fathers and their beloved state, Dominion of Memories offers in microcosm the story of how a nation founded with great hope in the Age of Revolution found itself marching inexorably towards civil war half a century later.

## Editions

### Dominion of Memories

- Publisher: basic_books
- ISBN: 978-04-6500-356-3
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2008-03-25
- Language: en_GB