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Loading... Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War (2006)by Nathaniel Philbrick
 E.J | Apr 3, 2013 |  Riveting, readable history (  ) Sullywriter | Apr 3, 2013 | being born & brought up (& educated) in new england, i tend to see things in the light cast by the plimoth plantation sort of utopian myth. it's fascinating to find out which parts aren't even close to the truth. for example, remember the part about how squanto was supposed to be awesome and everyone's hero? turns out, not so much. while the pilgrims did rely on him for his translation services, in fact, he changed his name to a shortened form of the name of the spirit that the pilgrims equated with satan, and had a machiavellian plan to rule over all the native americans in the region! crazy. and that's just the beginning. (  ) cat-ballou | Apr 2, 2013 | Maybe not the most totally engrossing book I've ever read, but it was informative. ( ) AlCracka | Apr 2, 2013 | Philbrick does not disappoint. Adds complexity to the hackneyed Pilgrim narrative with which we were indoctrinated. The Native Americans were not innocent, nor were The Pilgrims pure. A good human story. (  ) Negev.Ben-Freddie | Mar 18, 2013 | no reviews | add a review
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The Mayflower, the Indians and Pilgrims, the cutesy little story I got told in elementary school. And then the *real* story I found out later, the horrible Pilgrims being huge dicks to the Indians and stealing all their land. And then I hated Thanksgiving for a couple years because it was all so tragic. This is sort of a mix between the two of those, and it is all so interesting. The Pilgrims went to a whole new world and before they left they didn't know one thing about it. That takes balls. I couldn't do it. There was also a lot of crap they had to deal with, the boat ride, finally getting there and they had no place to live while building a place to live, food was scarce, it was cold. So when I read about the "horrible things" the Pilgrims did I understood a lot more.
The one thing I will say about this book is there is a huge break between the first Pilgrims arriving on the Mayflower and getting settled and then all of a sudden the next generation were running things. I would have liked more of an explanation of what happened between those times. Overall though this was definitely something I would recommend to anyone interested in American history.
Also I felt bad for Miles Standish. It wasn't enough people made fun of how short he was during his whole life, they had to exhume him and still talk about his stupid small stature? Poor guy.
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