I,roger Williams

THIS IS THE masterwork of our most distinguished historical novelist, & in the life of Roger Williams she has found the story of a lifetime. Williams, plucked from obscurity to clerk for the great English jurist Sir Edward Coke, had a ringside seat on the brutal politics of Jacobean London. He was witness to the pomp of the Star Chamber, to the burning of dissenters, to the humiliation of his master by King James & his favorite, the dangerously beautiful Buckingham. Eventually he fled to Puritan New England, where repression & conformity wore different clothes. Mary Lee Settle's arresting narrative layers the approaching civil war in England with the emergence of a new order in Rhode Island, the first colony grounded on freedom of conscience. Williams, banished by his fellow colonists in the dead of winter, endured years of exile among the Narragansett Indians. To him we owe the gift of our political freedom, & to Settle the gift of this book.Settle, Mary Lee is the author of 'I,roger Williams' with ISBN 9780393049053 and ISBN 0393049051.