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In this absorbing book, George McKenna ranges across the entire panorama of American history to track the development of American patriotism. That patriotism—shaped by Reformation Protestantism and imbued with the American Puritan belief in a providential “errand”—has evolved over 350 years and influenced American political culture in both positive and negative ways, McKen
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Hardcover, 448 pages
Published
September 28th 2007
by Yale University Press
(first published August 28th 2007)
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This book was magnificent. Man, what a book.
I cannot hype this book enough. I really can't. It's just that good. George McKenna has achieved a truly masterful feat. He begins by exploring the nature and character of New England's early Puritans, examining contrasts within factions of Puritan theology (e.g., preparationists vs. spiritists), and then traces the way American self-conceptions have basically been variants on, or reactions against, the Puritan sense of national mission ever since (and the ways in which that overall outlook, onc
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A march through American history, tracing the impact and influence of the Puritans and their posterity and legacy -- from settlement to the Revolution to Whiggery to the Abolitionist Republicans to Progressivism to the modern Democrats (and noting along the way the Great Reversal, that Southern Evangelicals and Catholics who were the anti-Christs of early Puritan polemics now constitute the heart of that polis whose philosophical and ideological sentiments bear the most similarity to the Puritan
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Wildly ambitious, it is both absorbing and satisfying. A terrific book.
Very good book. Traces a couple of Puritan themes through American History and shows how most politicians have used Puritan themes to promote their agendas or to slam other people's agendas.
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Oct 30, 2012
JR McCravy
marked it as to-read
Excited to get into this, especially in light of the heavy exposure to Puritanism I've had this semester under Dr. Ramsey.
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A wonderful read. Sweeping in scope and rigorously in depth.
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