‘Vivid and amazingly fresh…Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the age groups.’

–The NY Times Reserve Review

Finalist for the Pulitzer Reward in history

New York Situations Book Review TOP books of the entire year

How did America begin? That simple query launches the acclaimed writer of Bunker Hill and Valiant Ambition on a fantastic journey to comprehend the reality behind our most sacred nationwide misconception: the voyage of the Mayflower and the arrangement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals within this electrifying history of the Pilgrims, the story of Plymouth Colony was a fifty-five calendar year epic that began in peril and finished in battle. New England erupted right into a bloody discord that nearly destroyed the British colonists and natives alike. These events designed the existing areas and the country that would grow from them.