Thomas Ritchie: A Study in Virginia Politics (Classic Reprint) - Hardcover

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The political history of the United States for the period of its inception, infancy, and youth can be found in the numerous biographies of illustrious Virginians. Notwith standing the fact that many Virginians preferred to serve their country in the capacity of local legislators and admin istrators, others gave up their lives and fortunes to the central government. It was their own darling child. Historians have written the names of those who took the latter course, Washington, Madison, Jefferson, Marshall, Monroe. Randolph, and others in large letters 'in the annals of the republic and have accorded a due prestige and renown to the state of their nativity. In weaving these lives into that of the nation they have forgotten, however, those other illustrious sons who remained at home to preserve those con ditions which made possible the state's greater luminaries and her national influence. They have forgotten also that Virginia continued to have a history separate and distinct from that of the nation. The fact that there is no written history of the state for the period since the federal govern ment began is significant, but it does not mean that there were no events worth recording or that she gave all her talents and genius to the common country.

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