An Award-Winning Book
  Maryland Historical Society Book Prize

“Hamilton’s literary hi-jinks reflect a serious purpose that will require a good deal of serious attention. The History is the most important addition to our sense of the literature of the colonial period since the publication of Edward Taylor’s poems.”

--Norman S. Grabo


“What a joy, to have this eighteenth-century American comic treasury in print for the first time, more than two centuries after its composition!”

--John Barth