John Winthrop America's Forgotten Founding Father

Name: John Winthrop America's Forgotten Founding Father
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ISBN: 9780195179811

ISBN-10: 0195179811

ISBN-13: 9780195179811

Edition: 2005

Authors: Francis J. Bremer

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The preeminent figure of early New England, John Winthrop was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. More than anyone else, he shaped the culture of New England and his effort to create a Puritan "City on a Hill" has had a lasting effect on American values. In John Winthrop, Francis J. Bremer draws on over a decade of research in England, Ireland, and the United States to offer a superb biography of Winthrop, one rooted in a detailed understanding of his first forty years in England. Indeed, Bremer provides an extensive, path-breaking treatment of Winthrop's family background, youthful development, and English career. His dissatisfaction with the decline of the "godly kingdom…

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List price: $26.99
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/31/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 9.21" wide x 6.10" long x 1.61" tall
Weight: 1.540
Language: English



Acknowledgments and Thanks


Introduction


Prologue



Heritage



Lavenham to London



Reformation



John and Adam



Struggle



Youth



Turning Points



A Godly Magistrate



The Godly Embattled



The Decision to Migrate


Interlude: Christian Charity



Errand



Passing Through Hell



The Best of Them Was But an Attorney



Relations with England



On the Fringe



War



Struggling to Hold the Center



New Trials and Disappointments



War Clouds and Concerns



Under Attack



Last Years


Epilogue


Notes


Index