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A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2001 and a Washington Post Book World 2001 Rave. In this beautiful and feelingly written book, Mary Lee Settle tells the story of Roger Williams: the most compelling figure in colonial America. Plucked from obscurity to clerk for the celebrated English... read more
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I, ROGER WILLIAMS, ONCE CALLED PASSIONATE, PREcipitate, and divinely mad, New England's gadfly, firebrand in the night, do slump upon the ground this day in late June of the most disastrous year of my life, 1676, like a stove hulk.
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- Mary Lee Settle (Author)
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