The Puritan Ordeal
Andrew Delbanco
320 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0674740564
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Language: English
Publish: 670492800000
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.