William Penn
Harry Emerson Wildes
- New York Macmillan 1974
- 469 p
Self-reared child -- Lonely visions -- Scholar and gallant -- Worldly glory fades -- Tower prison -- Love and duty -- For English rights -- Freedom to think -- Overseas opening -- Come, ye oppressed -- Squire in Sussex -- Crusade for Europe -- Charm a deaf adder -- Passport to peace -- Freedom for the asking -- Planning perfection -- Quo warranto threat -- Drift to the right -- Rule by amateurs -- Westward to utopia -- Seeds of unrest -- How to treat minorities -- Baltimore confrontation -- Loving tenants -- Neighborly relations -- Again the courtier -- Secret Jesuit? -- Vice runs rampant -- Decadence and sin -- Magdalen case -- Friendship spells treason -- Blackwell's ordeal -- Lost and regained -- Discord brings union -- Quacks and witches -- Hannah to the rescue -- Pirates and smugglers -- Problem children -- Return to America -- Trouble shooting -- Pennsbury manor -- Blacks are better -- Beset by foes -- Daring the lightning -- Love thy neighbor -- Relapse from grace -- At club law -- Times of stress -- Badgered and bewildered -- Reversion to peace.
Explores previously neglected areas of Penn's childhood and personal life, revealing the complex and often contradictory character of the founder of Pennsylvania.