Let Me Lie: Being in the Main an Ethnological Account of the Remarkable Commonwealth of Virginia and the Making of Its History (The Virginia Bookshelf)

by JamesBranchCabell (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2001

  $29.86

  When this work was first published in 1947, most reviewers missed the double meaning of the book's title. It is indeed a history of Virginia from 1559 to 1946 - focusing on Tidewater, Richmond and the Northern Neck - but it shows that Virginia's story of itself depends on illusion and myth.