John Winthrop: Biography as History

by Francis J . Bremer (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $25.53

  John Winthrop (1588-1649) was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and is generally considered the principal architect of early New England society. This book discusses Winthrop's family life and the challenges of life faced by men, women, and children in the seventeenth century by placing his life in the context of the times.