King Philip's War--one of America's first and costliest wars--began in 1675 as an Indian raid on several farms in Plymouth Colony, but quickly escalated into a

"Vivid and remarkably fresh...Philbrick has recast the Pilgrims for the ages."--The New York Times Book Review Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in History New Yo

Drawing on rich archival research, this book explores how the elite network of the Pilgrims Society - whose members included J. P. Morgan and Andrew Carnegie -