Covenant Against Kings: Jacob Leisler, the New York Uprising, and the Long Fight for Representative Government

In the spring of 1689, a German-born wine merchant named Jacob Leisler seized control of a crumbling fort at the tip of Manhattan and held it for nearly two years in the name of the Protestant monarchs William and Mary. What followed was one of the most consequential political upheavals in the history of colonial America — a revolution that established the first popularly elected mayor of New York...