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Also by Godfrey Hodgson:

The Myth of American Exceptionalism, February 2009
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A Great and Godly Adventure, October 2006
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A GREAT AND GODLY ADVENTURE
By: Godfrey Hodgson

The Pilgrims and the Myth of the First Thanksgiving

PublicAffairs
October 2006
On Sale: October 1, 2006
212 pages
ISBN: 1586483730
EAN: 9781586483739
Hardcover
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A captivating revisionist history of the classic narrative of settlement reveals that much that we think we know about the Pilgrims is wrong— but that the spirit of their first Thanksgiving survives

The first Thanksgiving wasn't celebrated with turkey (there weren't any in Massachusetts) and didn't take place in 1621. Indeed the settlers, who probably didn't think of themselves as Pilgrims and were most certainly not revolutionaries against their king, were lucky not to be wiped out during their first winter. They probably would have been had the local Indian population not been affected even worse by disease and starvation.

In this fascinating history of America's favorite creation myth, peppered with delightful and unexpected insights, Godfrey Hodgson throws new light on the radicalism of the so-called Pilgrims, the financing of their trip, the state of the Indian tribes that they encountered when they landed and the reasons why Plymouth probably didn't have a rock.

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CBS Sunday Morning - November 26, 2006