The Search for Liberty: From Origins to Independence, Volume I

"Esmond Wright's Search for Liberty is all that we have come to expect from the author of many books - wonderful skills of synthesis and narrative history, noted for his wit and wisdom. Although Wright is respectful of new methodologies, he is not governed by them, for he is at heart a storyteller, whose deft portraits of heroes and villains, as well of great historians such as Francis Parkman and S. E. Morison, add to this richly textured fabric of early American history." Professor Don Higginbotham, The University of North Carolina

"This will be a truly outstanding series. Wright's history is a smooth-flowing mix of narration of events, bibliographic essays, biographical sketches, and balanced examination of conflicting theories on disputed historical activities. Overall, a highly reasonable work that should stimulate anyone who reads it." Choice