Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment by Kevin Kenny

Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment

Kevin Kenny

304 pages • first pub 2009 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced
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William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually di...

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