Full name: Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

Author: Nathaniel Philbrick Year: 2006 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, War/Military, Religion, Adventure Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780143111979 9780670037605 0670037605

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 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. Similar books: The Wordy Shipmates by Sarah Vowell A History of the American People by Paul Johnson The Barbarous Years by Bernard Bailyn Bunker Hill by Nathaniel Philbrick The Colonial Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin Lies My Teacher Told Me by James W. Loewen Eyewitness to America by David Colbert The National Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin Albion's Seed by David Hackett Fischer Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck The Fifties by David Halberstam To America by Stephen E. Ambrose The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn 1776 by David McCullough Brave Companions by David McCullough The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik In the Hurricane's Eye by Nathaniel Philbrick Revenge of the Whale by Nathaniel Philbrick In the Heart of the Sea by Nathaniel Philbrick Ghost Soldiers by Hampton Sides