By the time his book went to press in London, on November 18, 1633, Thomas Morton had been exiled from the Puritan colonies in Massachusetts. Today on the show, the story of what's widely considered America's first banned book, the radical vision it conjured, and the man who outlined that vision: Thomas Morton, the Lord of Misrule. Peter Mancall, a historian of early America at the University of Southern California and author of The Trials of Thomas Morton, An Anglican Lawyer, His Puritan Foes, and the Battle for a New England.