In this book, author Ted Lamont asks us to reconsider our country's formative years, and explore the stories, lives, achievements, and failures of America's earliest founding fathers: those who paved the way for the Colonial Era, and the American Revolution.

Introduction
Chapter 1 Treasure, Cod, and the Northwest Passage
Chapter 2 The Elizabethan Age
Chapter 3 Probing the Forbidden Shores
Chapter 4 The English Are Coming
Chapter 5 Soldier of Fortune
Chapter 6 The First English Colony
Chapter 7 The King and His Princess
Chapter 8 Exploring the Chesapeake
Chapter 9 Captain Newport Returns
Chapter 10 Troubles for the President
Chapter 11 Under New Management
Chapter 12 Northern Virginia becomes New England
Chapter 13 Indian Partners
Chapter 14 The Leiden Separatists
Chapter 15 The Plymouth Plantation
Chapter 16 Indian Summer
Chapter 17 Emerging Conflicts
Chapter 18 John Winthrop and the Puritans
Chapter 19 King Philip's War
Chapter 20 Virginia and Massachusetts

Edward M. Lamont served in the U.S. Navy, and was a banker for twenty-three years with the World Bank and JP Morgan & Co. He also worked for the Marshall Plan and NATO in Paris and the US Department of Housing and Urban Development in Washington, DC. He is a chairman emeritus of The Children's Aid Society in New York City. Lamont is the author of The Ambassador From Wall Street: The Story of Thomas W. Lamont, J.P. Morgan's Chief Executive and Ned Miner and His Pioneering Forebears. He and his wife Camille made their home in Laurel Hollow, Long Island, New York. They have three children and five grand children.