I find this book incredibly irritating, in that I can read a sentence; it makes perfect sense, and then I realize -- HOW do people know that? Why should I believe it? There are no sources cited, no primary sources quoted. The book tells me that "...the Pilgrims were less committed to grand designs, less concerned about how they were viewed by others, than the Puritans who settled the larger and more ambitious English colonies to their north." How do people know this? Are there written records? If so, why aren't they quoted? Or why, at least, are they not cited so I can go look them up? I might even be happy to have a secondary source cited. But as it is, I have no reason to believe any of what it says... If I wrote a history paper like this, my teachers would give me a zero, and I would deserve it.