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Lynne Cheney

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Author Lynne Cheney examines the friendships and rivalries within the “Virginia Dynasty” of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe, including the contradiction between the ideals of American liberty and prosperity they espoused and their status as slaveholders.
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