The Days and Ways of the Cocked Hats

The very best historical fiction is that which takes us into a time and place about which we are not quite so familiar as we would like, and then educates us even while entertaining us. The events that form the historical edifice of this novel are real—historians formally call them the "1689 Boston revolt." Sir Edmund Andros, a central character of the novel, really was the Governor of the Dominion of New England from 1686 until 1689 when, as described herein, the colonists of Boston uncere...