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Title: Intelligent and Humorous; Keep a Highlighter Handy
Review: I chose this book for its insights into Tidewater life, since that is my heritage. (Mr. Kennedy was related to the Dandridge family.) I recommend this volume to anyone who enjoys this topic. In addition, the writing is fabulous: colorful, original, and fun. I found unique phrases and new words on almost every page (hence the highlighter); in fact, for six of the new words, this book was the only source for those words listed in the OED online. (Can you find them?) Socially, look for a northern visitor's view of early 19th-century southern perspectives on slavery; he is quite insightful.
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