Mayflower
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Mayflower
| Full title | Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War |
|---|---|
| Author | Nathaniel Philbrick |
| Published | 2006 |
| Pages | 480 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Philbrick takes the Plymouth story past the first winter and through the next fifty years to King Philip’s War — the alliance with Massasoit that held for a generation and then broke. The unsentimental version of the founding myth. |
Where I heard about it
- A reply to @typesfast — named as “Mayflower by Nathaniel Philbrick” in answer to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?” in a thread on X, June 2025. The full set of replies lives on What’s the best history book… (tweet).
Connections
- Frontier — the first English frontier in New England, and what happened to the accommodation it started with.
- American Dream — the founding story the book complicates.
- Institutions — the Plymouth compact as an early act of self-government.
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the thread this recommendation came from.
What links here
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