Lord of the Mohawks: A Biography of Sir William Johnson

xviii, 400 pp. 8vo. In Lord of the Mohawks, James Thomas Flexner, winner of the National Book Award and the rarely awarded Special Pulitzer Prize has restored to life the most influential frontiersman our nation has ever known. Sir William Johnson, an Irish immigrant became through his own efforts a British baronet, an adopted member of the Mohawk Tribe, a wealthy land-owner, colonizer and furrier, and married a beautiful and political scion of the royal blood of the Mohawks, Molly Brant. He was a powerfully romantic figure, and never was a more picturesque protagonist, moving in a more exciting setting, offered to the biographer's pen! Flexner definitely delivers a fine historical biography.