One of these books, "Savage Kingdom," by Benjamin Woolley, follows the Jamestown colony from its origin in 1607 through 1623, and attempts to unravel one of history's enigmas: How "a morsel of colonial ambition, popped into the mouth of the Chesapeake in 1607," could, a few centuries later, become a world superpower. One of these books, "Savage Kingdom," by Benjamin Woolley, follows the Jamestown colony from its origin in 1607 through 1623, and attempts to unravel one of history's enigmas:...