I agree: thanks for recommending the two books. I'm ordering "A land as 
God made it: Jamestown and the birth of America" for myself and my 
family, in part because of this line that I found in the online 
advertising: "Jamestown began the tenuous, often violent, mingling of 
different peoples that came to embody the American experience." To me 
that's an important dimension, and I'd like to understand it better.  
It's also interesting to learn -- as maybe everybody else already knew 
-- that James Horn, the author, is vice president of research for the 
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation.
Steve Corneliussen

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