This is the first biography of the Reverend Doctor William Archer Rutherfoord Goodwin, the minister who persuaded John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to resurrect 18th century Williamsburg. It is drawn largely from Goodwin's still private files, Colonial Williamsburg and Rockefeller files. Dennis Montgomery lives and writes in Claremont, a James River hamlet deep in Virginia's Tidewater. A journalist for more than 30 years, the Virginia-born author has served the world's largest news service, a Piedmont daily and small-town weeklies as a writer and editor, and he has long contributed to journals and magazines devoted to history, law and business. Montgomery's feature stories on the American Revolution helped win him a National Endowment for the Humanities journalism fellowship at the University of Michigan and he is a scriptwriter of three prize-winning historical videos; among them The Rockefeller Family and Colonial Williamsburg. His interest in the Rev. Dr. W.A.R. Goodwin's contribution to the restoration of 18th-century Williamsburg began during Montgomery's years as a senior staff writer at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He is completing work on his next book, Starving Time, the story of early Jamestown. Used Book in Good Condition