Brings a strikingly original perspective to Johnson's life, and suggests new ways of thinking about Johnson's part in creating a nation he did not live to see. William Johnson was scarcely more than a boy when he left Ireland and his Gaelic, Roman Catholic family...
A provocative new biography of the man who forged America's alliance with the IroquoisWilliam Johnson was scarcely more than a boy when he left Ireland and his Gaelic, Catholic family to become a Protestant in the service of Britain's North American empire. In New York by 1738,...