A graduate of King's College, Cambridge, with a master's degree from Columbia University, Nick Bunker has had a diverse career in finance and journalism. A former investment banker and reporter for the "Financial Times, "he now lives with his wife, Susan, in Lincolnshire, England.
"One opens this book with a weary sense of resignation. More
hagiography about national origins? Another group of founders? The
Pilgrims? The Mayflower? The Compact? The first Thanksgiving? A
'new history'? Please! Enough already. And yet...it's not like
that, not at all. To the contrary, Nick Bunker offers a remarkably
fresh take on (it's true) an old and well-worn story... The
evidence...adds up to a picture so full and vivid as to constitute
a virtual ground-level tour of an otherwise lost world." ---"The
Washington Post"
"A meticulous exploration of the lives of the Pilgrims before they
even set sail...It's a comprehensive work of genius and a delight
to read." ---GalleyCat.com
"A wonderfully engaging study...There is so much here that is fresh
and invigorating that "Making Haste from Babylon" will seem to some
lovers of early American history a real page-turner with new
readings and perceptive takes in each chapter. Bunker has written
that rarest of books - a scholarly history with all the narrative
punch of a novel." ---"The Providence Journal" "Bunker...is simply
a marvelous writer with a nose for the fascinating
anecdote...There's some intriguing fact or story on every page...so
much of "Making Haste from Babylon" [is] rich in the thrill of
brushing up against the past and its fathomless mysteries."
---Salon.com
"A bold work of revisionism." ---"Harper's Magazine"
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"Making Haste from Babylon is essential reading for those who think
they know the story of the Pilgrims...All this and more Bunker
relates with enviable concision and verve." ---"BBC History
Magazine" "Prodigious...[Bunker's] vivid style and bold analysis
infuse this book with colour and pace, and the result is an
indispensable contribution to understanding how it all began."
-"Literary Review"
"This superb book secures for the Pilgrims their iconic perch among
the earliest founders of colonial America. Bunker...has succeeded
in writing
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