J. A. LEO LEMAY was the H. F. du Pont Winterthur Professor of English at the University of Delaware. He was the author of numerous books, including The Canon of Benjamin Franklin, 1722-1776: New Attributions and Reconsiderations; Robert Bolling Woos Anne Miller: Love and Courtship in Colonial Virginia, 1760; The American Dream of Captain John Smith; and An Early American Reader.
Lemay has provided the most thorough study to date of the crucial documents concerning Pocahontas’s supposed rescue of John Smith.|His examination of his sources is quite thorough and illuminates both the time period in which the Smith/Pocahontas episode occurred and the process of nineteenth-century historical debate.
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