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Original Title:	Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War
ISBN:	0670037605 (ISBN13: 9780670037605)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Pulitzer Prize Nominee for History (2007), Massachusetts Book Award for Nonfiction (2007)

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HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN?

This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying new book, the story of the Pilgrims does not end with the First Thanksgiving; instead, it is a fifty-five-year epic that is at once tragic and heroic, and still carries meaning for us today.

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Title	:	Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Author	:	Nathaniel Philbrick
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 461 pages
Published	:	May 9th 2006 by Viking (first published April 24th 2006)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. North American Hi.... American History. Historical

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A must-read if you're from New England or interested in early colonial era history. Philbrick's Mayflower is written to capture your interest in a way you might not expect a book on the Pil--*YAWN!*--grims could. You'll find much more detail with way more truth in this book than anything you learned about those uptight prigs in elementary school!

Unabridged audio book.I read ("listened to" in this case) this over Thanksgiving a while back. It's a pretty good attempt at an even handed treatment of the subject. I find that while earlier versions of the story tend to view the Pilgrims universally as heroic (not a bad thing for young students in my view) the more recent attempts have gone the other way. There seems to be a need to see them almost as villains. They were of course, human, a mixture of good and bad. Many of the things they did

I'm pretty sure Philbrick didn't pick this title. Very little of this book is about the Mayflower or the first Thanksgiving, or landing at Plymouth. It's really about "King Phillip's War" a 14 month protracted and bloody conflict between English settlers and Native American tribes that took place a generation or two after the Mayflower arrived. Philbrick states that this war was the impetus for his writing and the focus of his research in the very beginning of the book. I cannot blame him for

We Americans all have some vision of the Pilgrims, from Plymouth Rock to the first Thanksgiving, to what the colonial world looked like. The elementary school version--which has remarkable staying power for many--is the image of religious Pilgrims seeking religious freedom in a new world, nurtured by the help of the natives, giving us our idyllic First Thanksgiving. The revised standard version from the '60s focuses on the decimation of the native populations, the rapacious capitalists among the

Spoiler Alert: The Mayflower lands in Plymouth! Rocks fall, all the Native Americans die.(One of the most interesting things about Mayflower is how little of it actually dealt with the ship itself. The Pilgrims are settled (well, settled), and the Mayflower headed back to England to fall into disrepair and be sold for scrap by page 80. More than half the book is spent on King Philips War and the events that lead to it, which actually concerns the two generations after the Mayflowers passengers.)

Nathaniel Philbrick's "Mayflower" is a wonderful rendering of the founding of the Plymouth Colony and its first half century. The book traces the founding event in 1620 to disaffection by a set of English Puritans. They moved to the Netherlands and sought to assure passage to the New World. The ship that they used for this adventure was, of course, the Mayflower. The book traces the difficult voyage of 102 passengers over two months. Living conditions were nasty. We meet some of the central