MixedThe New York TimesIn Terror to the Wicked, Tobey Pearl, a lawyer and educator, focuses on an important episode in the story of colonist-Native relations ... Pearl has not unearthed any facts that have not been previously reported in many studies of the Plymouth Colony. She adds conjecture to what the sources actually tell us, with speculation about what Peach and his associates may have been feeling, the possible motivations of major characters and the supposed thoughts of the jurors, to mention just a few examples ... One can’t go beyond one or two pages without encountering something that \'may have,\' \'possibly\' or \'likely\' happened ... What sources consider possible, Pearl presents as certainty. For such supposition to be persuasive readers have to be confident in the author’s deep knowledge of the times and culture, but there are too many factual inaccuracies and jumblings of chronology to provide that confidence in this case ... well written and draws upon important new insights into Native culture.
