Second, comprehensive. In covering not just the voyage for the first few years, working philips war, all of which have recently been done, but in covering the entire story, allowing us, the readers, to enjoy the true benefits of history, which is the scope, to follow consequences of actions through generations. Narratives, because what nat does best is to tell a story. An adventure story, but in many ways, and unexpected adventure story. Look at the cover. I of course love it because it is our painting, the mayflower on her arrival in plymouth harbor. Thathat i really love is even though the book is entitled the mayflower, this cover doesnt put the mayflower front and center, it doesnt show a by waves. D that would be the expected adventure story. Instead, it focuses on this little group of pilgrims leaving the ship that has brought them through peril, headed off toward the shore on the verge of starting new lives. And it is there in the territory of these wideopen possibilities that t
Narrator the time is september in the year 1620. The good ship mayflower is carrying pilgrims across the sea to america. But who were the pilgrims . Why did they leave their homes . The answer is in the history of plymouth plantation, written by william bradford, second governor of the colony. Bradfords history begins with religious problems in england , where a new ruler, james the first, became king in 1603. As king, james was also supreme head of the church of england, the official church. But some people objected to the rules andes rituals of the church of england. They withdrew from it, and were called separatists. The story of their religious persecution in england, how they became pilgrims, and how they eventually found religious freedom, was all recorded by william bradford. Many therefore of the lords free people joined themselves into a church or state. They were of towns and villages in england. But after they continued together for about a year and kept their meetings every
Career has focused on americas relationship with the sea in a aing of notable books, from. Y offshore to abrams eyes second, comprehensive in cover not just a voyage or the first war, all of which have recently been done, but in covering the entire story, allowing us, the readers, to enjoy the true benefits of history, which is the scope, to follow consequences of actions through generations and narratives because what nat does best is to tell a story an adventure story, but in many ways, and unexpected adventure story. Look at the cover. I, of course, love it because it is our painting. The mayflower on her arrival. But what i really love is that even though the book is entitled the mayflower, this cover does not put the mayflower front and center. It does not show a ship tossed by waves. That would be the expected adventure story. Instead, it focuses on this little group of pilgrims leading a ship that has brought them through storms and peril, headed off toward shore on the verge of
Wife lissa muscatine. We have a Great Program for you this evening featuring journalists Michael Bender in conversation with columnist peggy noonan about his new book tonight. A couple housekeeping notes first. To pose a question at any point just click on the q a icon at the bottom of the screen. In the chat column youll find a link for purchasing copies of frankly, we did win this election. His journalism career as filed a pretty steady upward trajectory over the past 20 years right to one of the most coveted reporting jobs in washington. After working initially for newspapers in ohio, colorado and florida, then as a senior Political Writer for bloomsburg, he joined the wall street journal five years ago and it is the paper seen as White House Correspondent. Michael cover Donald Trumps 2016 run for the presidency and all four have trumps years in office. Winning awards for his reporting for both the National Press club and the gerald ford foundation. When michael set out to write a b
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