“What Professor Jones has done, with immense learning, with deep insight, with humor and fancy and literary skill is to give us chapters in a history of the discovery, the invention, the definition, and the self-realization of America. What he has done is to recreate for us the elusive sense of the wonder and excitement of the unveiling of a new world, of the violent and even convulsive impact of the Old World on the new, and the New World on the old.”– New York Herald Tribune Book Week