Full name: Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation

Author: David A. Price Year: 2003 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781400031726 1400031729

A New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded with incompetence and infighting; only the leadership of Captain John Smith averted doom for the first permanent English settlement in the New World.The Jamestown colony is one of the great survival stories of American history, and this book brings it fully to life for the first time. Drawing on extensive original documents, David A. Price paints intimate portraits of the major figures from the formidable monarch Chief Powhatan, to the resourceful but unpopular leader John Smith, to the spirited Pocahontas, who twice saved Smith's life. He also gives a rare balanced view of relations between the settlers and the natives and debunks popular myths about the colony. This is a superb work of history, reminding us of the horrors and heroism that marked the dawning of our nation. Similar books: Miracles and Massacres by Glenn Beck Savage Kingdom by Benjamin Woolley Eyewitness to America by David Colbert The Twentieth Century by Howard Zinn The National Experience by Daniel J. Boorstin The Great Upheaval by Jay Winik A Brave Vessel by Hobson Woodward The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Mobituaries by Mo Rocca The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir The Meaning of Everything by Simon Winchester Crazy Horse and Custer by Stephen E. Ambrose Caesar by Adrian Goldsworthy Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt Joseph Fouche by Stefan Zweig A Man Called Intrepid by William Stevenson Churchill by Winston Churchill