Based on actual events in the early 18th century, Biscuits & Whisky reveals the story of how Britain lost control over its Virginia colony as the Fairfax family failed to sustain any semblance of oversight while the colony's planters accumulated land and wealth at the expense of Lord Fairfax and his heirs. A beautifully written, evocative account of the powerful egos who shaped the transition of Virginia from wilderness to plantations to a commonwealth.