| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Douglas Anderson. William Bradford's Books: Of Plimmoth Plantation and the Printed Word. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 2003. Pp. ix, 280. $45.00.

This book represents an increasingly rare commodity in the ever-tightening marketplace for scholarly publication: the comprehensive study of a single author and a single work. The author and work in this case do have a foundational place in American history (and myth), but to an unsympathetic eye—perhaps that of an overworked acquisitions editor at an academic press—William Bradford's Of Plimmoth Plantation could easily be categorized as yet another largely unread, dry-as-toast document from the days before things got really interesting in this country. Under the current circumstances, the publication of Douglas Anderson's fine book seems, well, providential, and one hopes that it finds the audience that it so richly deserves.

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