American Heroes

American Heroes
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Profiles of Men and Women Who Shaped Early America

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ebook

تاریخ انتشار

2010

نویسنده

Edmund S. Morgan

شابک

9780393074260
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Publisher's Weekly

Starred review from March 9, 2009
Despite the lowbrow title, these are intelligent, opinionated essays on America between 1600 and 1800. Morgan, a revered historian and the bestselling author of Benjamin Franklin
, wrote the earliest chapter in 1937, the latest in 2005. Many describe obscure events but pack a surprising punch. In “Dangerous Books,” the author tells the story of Yale (where he is professor emeritus), founded in 1701 as a bastion of Puritanism, but with a library of works by English Enlightenment intellectuals. In 1721 six members of the faculty, including the rector, horrified the community by publicly renouncing Calvinism. The last official American execution for witchcraft occurred in 1692, but the popular belief in witchcraft continued well into the 19th century: in a marvelously recounted vignette, Morgan describes Philadelphia in 1787, where a few miles from the halls where America's elite were debating our Constitution, a mob abused and finally killed an old woman accused of witchcraft. Three of the 17 essays are previously unpublished. Happily, all are up to the standards of this wise, venerable (now 93) and deeply thoughtful historian.




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