The author has undertaken the somewhat daunting task of taking up the cudgels on behalf of this little understood monarch, on whose behalf Virginia was established, but whom the English and many Americans have largely written off, except perhaps for his assumed sexual aberrations which titillate an ill-informed modern generation. Of course, James Stuart's speech was almost foreign and his manners likewise in England and as one commentator at least has admitted his crude bohemic and his displays of Scots sentimentality could easily be misconstrued by those who wished to do so. The author has striven hard to put things in perspective and we hope he succeeds. The 400th anniversary of the creation of the United Kingdom (Great Britain as King James liked to call it), falls in a few years, so a new biography of the man in whose person this was achieved may be no bad thing.
Reverend Dale E. Vick, Pastor of First Baptist Church of St. Petersburg Beach Florida
Historically enlightening...well written and documented...thoroughly enjoyable for lovers of truth in history. The misrepresentation inn regard to James' character is in reality a subtle attack on the historical part that he played in bringing us the Word of God in the English language. I thank God for the life of King James, and I thank God for Stephen A. Coston SR.'s defense of King James' character, and I thank God for the King James Bible.
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