Alan Taylor

Reading Roger Williams

History & Biography

“Notoriously cranky, complex, and diverse, Roger Williams shines as a religious liberator and repels as an exploiter of Natives. Prolific, provocative, brilliant, and often dense, his writings both need and reward the insights so richly applied by three deft scholars with deep expertise in colonial New England and its Native context. This collection reveals Williams as the most compelling, maddening, and revealing colonist of his century.”