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The Puritan Ordeal
More than an ecclesiastical or political history, this book is a vivid description of the earliest American immigrant experience. It depicts the dramatic tale of the seventeenth-century newcomers to our shores as they were drawn and pushed to make their way in an unsettled and unsettling world.
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The Puritan Ordeal
More than an ecclesiastical or political history, this book is a vivid description of the earliest American immigrant experience. It depicts the dramatic tale of the seventeenth-century newcomers to our shores as they were drawn and pushed to make their way in an unsettled and unsettling world.
More than an ecclesiastical or political history, this book is a vivid description of the earliest American immigrant experience. It depicts the dramatic tale of the seventeenth-century newcomers to our shores as they were drawn and pushed to make their way in an unsettled and unsettling world.
Andrew Delbanco is the Mendelson Family Chair of American Studies and Julian Clarence Levi Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University.
Table of Contents
Contents Introduction 1 The Prophecies of Richard Hooker 2 Errand out of the Wilderness 3 City on a Hill 4 The Antinomian Dissent 5 The Founders Divide 6 Looking Homeward, Going Home 7 Fathers and Children 8 The Puritan Legacy Epilogue: Lincoln and Everett at Gettysburg Notes Index
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Everett Emerson
Acquisitive life…To this argument about the early years of New England is grafted a secondary and much more speculative argument about Americans as immigrants. Delbanco identifies Americans with the 'extraordinary tenacity…with which Americans have clung to the belief that their lives can be radically renewed.' Everett Emerson, American Historical Review