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This is a book that has taken me over a year to read. There were months I did not even open my kindle app and work on it. It is an overwhelming one thousand pages of what is very good information but not in any way light reading. It is a social history of four of the groups of British immigrants to Colonial America and their enduring contribution to the formation and history of the United States. The four groups are the Puritans, the Virginia Planter, the Quakers and what I have always known as the Scotch Irish, which he called the Northern Border People. With my interest in family history I considered this a must read and I do recommend other students of American Social History also wade through it. But I am very glad to have reached the end. It was work to read. The book contains a great deal of extremely good information. I am not sure I totally agree with the author but it would be interesting to hear his ideas debated by learned historians. Please enjoy the video that follows about the book and click on the book title and author's name above to follow links to more information.
