Charles I's Killers in America
The Lives and Afterlives of Edward Whalley and William Goffe
Matthew Jenkinson
Reviews and Awards
"...well researched and well crafted" - John Coffey, University of Leicester, Milton Quarterly
"A delightful read" - Colin Kidd, The Guardian
"The book's forte is its careful analysis of the available material and the patient exposure of its frustrating inadequacies." - Andrew Taylor, The Times
"Intriguing account." - Philip Terzian, The Wall Street Journal
"Jenkinson's work ... offers a refreshing corrective to recent popular accounts, which have tended to rehearse the now familiar story of the dramatic pursuit of these 'king killers' across the wilds of New England by Royalist bounty hunters ... The picture presented by Jenkinson of the increasingly cloistered existence endured by two ageing revolutionaries wracked with spiritual doubt may make for poorer fiction but is certainly the stuff of excellent history." - Edward Vallance, Literary Review
"Exhaustive research and penetrating analysis." - James Baresel, HistoryNet
"A lively and engaging account of two of the regicides who fled to New England and how they subsequently came to be remembered and mythologized in eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century America. Drawing on a wide range of both historical and fictional sources (including novels, plays, and visual art), this fascinating study reveals the crucial role that the subsequent refashioning of the story of the regicides played in forging a nascent American national identity." - Tim Harris, Munro-Goodwin-Wilkinson Professor in European History, Brown University