Title: Engrossing Narrative and New way of thinking about the colonial U.S.
Review: I listened to an audio version of this book in the car and found myself sitting in parking lots and taking the long route to hear more. Not only is the story itself an excellent balance of detail and action, but the narrator did an amazing job of keeping a non-fiction book feeling like an adventure novel. I suspect the text reads that way as well. Not only does the book teach about New Amesterdam/York, it really teaches a different perspective on how to think about the origins of the U.S. as a nation. Considering the current political climate that includes plenty of Puritan elements veering towards a theocracy, the argument that New Amsterdam/York was a place of tolerance from the beginning is a much needed perspective on who "we" are in the U.S.I'll add that I am a frequent Amazon book buyer (text and audio) but this is only one of a handful of reviews that I've written. It was that good.
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