William Penn A Life

Andrew R. Murphy is Professor of Political Science and the Richard L. Morrill Distinguished University Chair in Ethics and Democratic Values at Rutgers University, New Brunswick. Murphy is the author of Liberty, Conscience, and Toleration: The Political Thought of William Penn (Oxford University Press, 2016) and Prodigal Nation: Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11 (Oxford University Press, 2009).

Acknowledgments

Guide to Notes and Abbreviations

Prologue

Chapter 1 - Origins

Chapter 2 - A Young Man on the Move

Chapter 3 - Cork and Convincement

Chapter 4 - Celebrity

Chapter 5 - The Great Opinionist

Chapter 6 - American Affairs and Popish Plots

Chapter 7 - Penn's Woods

Chapter 8 - To America and Back Again

Chapter 9 - Trouble on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Chapter 10 - Seclusion and Solitude

Chapter 11 - A Return to Public Life

Chapter 12 - Pirates, Penn, and the Pennsylvanians

Chapter 13 - Back in England

Chapter 14 - William, Jr.

Chapter 15 - "Prison" and After

Epilogue

Bibliography

Index