{"product_id":"best-little-stories-from-virginia-c-brian-kelly-9781581823585","title":"Best Little Stories from Virginia","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen it comes to history, few states can rival Virginia, home of eight presidents and the cradle of the American Revolution. \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eBest Little Stories from Virginia\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e is a collection of more than 100 stories from the four centuries since Jamestown was founded in 1607. A journalistic history, it focuses on the \"feature story\" angle by approaching history through the eyes of the people who lived it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVirginia contained the first English colony in America as well as being the first place where slavery was introduced. It was both the leader of the Confederacy and a battleground of the civil rights struggles of the twentieth century. Its historic back-of-the-bus ruling in 1948 prohibited discriminatory practices on interstate buses long before the Rosa Parks case in Montgomery, Alabama, which involved city buses.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome of the stories included are: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDon Luis de Velasco, the Indian boy who was taken away by the Spanish in 1561 and later became chief of the Algonquin tribe.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eYoung George Washington, who served in English Maj. Gen. Edward Braddock's army during the French and Indian War alongside Lt. Col. Thomas Gage, who later commanded British troops during the American Revolution.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eGeorge Rogers Clark, whose army of 175 bedraggled, half-starved frontiersmen single handedly captured an important fort from much larger British forces.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCharles Crozet, the French engineer who designed and completed the Blue Ridge Tunnel in 1856, long before the discovery of dynamite, nitroglycerine, or pneumatic drills.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe building of the Pentagon, once known as \"Somervell's Folly\" after Brig. Gen. Brehon Somervell, who conceived it one weekend in mid-1941 as a way to gather scattered War Department personnel under one roof.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e C. Brian Kelly\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1581823584\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781581823585\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cumberland House\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 440\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.37lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.04h x 5.99w x 0.97d","brand":"C. Brian Kelly","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43989328232703,"sku":"9781581823585","price":19.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_87a497bb-ae37-4eec-845b-133e07a78fd7.jpg?v=1683298888","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/best-little-stories-from-virginia-c-brian-kelly-9781581823585","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}