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HomeShop at BookSurgeBusiness & EconomicsHuman Resources & Personnel ManagementVirginia's True Founder: Edward Maria Wingfield And His Times - Jamestown 400th Anniversary Edition |
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9 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 Amazing & Enlightening!! Apr 17, 2007
By George Malory
This is definitely the best-researched book in existence concerning the Jamestown Colony! You really get a sense of the events that caused the English to set out for the new world to begin with, and the terrible troubles that they endured after landing. It should be noted that in 1607, "Virginia" referred to all of North America claimed by the English, including much of Canada, so the book isn't just about some regional explorer, but rather the leader of England's hopes in all America.
Who knew that the first democratic election in the country that prides itself as the seat of democracy took place under British corporate rule? And who could name the first American President? Washington was the first president of the United States, but Wingfield was the first President of any kind elected here, over 400 years ago. Wingfield's name was sullied over the years by the accounts of a very bitter Captain John Smith, who was never again employed by the Virginia Company after some rather disastrous decision-making. If you want to read the other side of the story, this is it.
No doubt teachers & professors will find this book an invaluable tool in discussing America's beginnings as an English-speaking land. I thoroughly enjoyed it!!
1 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 a self-serving joke Jul 16, 2010
By Sarah M. Robinson
"Gulleyowl"
This book, written by another Wingfield, is something of a joke. Every item that supports his thesis is carefully examined; while those statements that do not support his claims are backed by "of course" or "certainly", or "without question" For example, see page 193 : "clearly, many (guns) or most were not." Clear to whom? Nothing he writes supports the statement.
Another little slight of hand produced by the author is attribution. On page 181 he states "Thjere were four key sources for this 'early period'." And a list follows. But, in fact there are a minimum of 5 key sources, and he knows this as they are all cited in the bibliography of this book. He just happens to forget to mention the source that he does not like. The 1608 work by John Smith.
This book is a vanity press edition and the reasons why this is so are "of course" or "certainly" or "without question" obvious to this reader.
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