Like many Americans, I think, my knowledge of the early history of this country tends to jump from the Pilgrims landing on Plymouth Rock---which is, in itself, a joke!---to the American Revolution, but as Philbrick observes in his book _Mayflower_, there are about 150 years in between those two historic events, when people were living, working, struggling to survive, and dying. I was appalled to realize that first the Pilgrims, and later the Puritans with them, set out to establish colonies in the new world where they could live and worship as they pleased, free of restraint from or oppression by the king or anyone else, only to develop the same degree (or worse!) of religious and social intolerance that they supposedly fled Europe to get away from.... to the point where, after finally conquering the local Indians, they then sold said Indians into slavery!! Another illustration of history repeating itself over and over and over again. My only complaint about the book is the reader, George Guidall: I like the sound of his voice and he reads the book very well, BUT I shuddered everytime he pronounced the word "8th," as in July 8th, 1669, because he says "ay-th" with no T sound after the 8, which to me is as annoying as the sound of fingernails being drawn across a chalkboard.
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