This historical fiction is set against the backdrop of the American Revolution and focuses on 'Brother Jonathan.' The character is derived from Jonathan Trumbull, Governor of the State of Connecticut, which was the primary source of supplies for the Northern and Middle Departments during the American Revolutionary War. Brother Jonathan was also a personification of New England. He became a famous fictional character, developed as a parody of all New England during the early American Republic.

A comprehensive reference for the growing field of environmental law, this important legal primer defines and interprets the statues and federal policies that protect archeological resources in land and water environments.

This novel concerns Wednesford Cottage Hospital, which had been founded by Sir Joseph Hingston. The hospital has become a private nursing home run by unscrupulous doctors, and Jonathan, a young physician, successfully opposes them so that the poor can once again benefit from it. Place and atmosphere play an essential part in the story, with the opposition of Higgin's buildings and Wolverbury Road, where the middle-class lives.

"This sequence is Vincent O'Sullivan's sixth volume of verse. The author comments: While I was reading in New England history, I was drawn to the eighteenth-century theologian Jonathan Edwards - to his certainty and to his awesome precision. At the same time I read Kafka. What went on about me from day to day, and the way the present is always shadowed and crosshatched by the strength of the past, quite naturally took the imprint of these two men as well. It semed to me that neither of their extremes could ever account for what one knew about life, yet to ignore them was to know very little either. These are the poems - of love, place, seasons, reflections, whatever - that comes from that time."--Back cover.