<p><span class="deck"> Five successive Benjamin Harrisons created a private empire of tobacco and trade and a great Virginia plantation</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck"> His feat was more daring than Paul Revere’s, but Virginia’s hero had, alas, no Longfellow</span> </p>
<p><span class="deck">When the government manipulated and misused the robber barons</span></p>
