In this Book

American Jeremiad

Book
Sacvan Bercovitch
1980
summary

"This is a dazzling performance. It supplies conceptual links between phenomena where historians have often sensed a connection without being able to describe it adequately. . . [Bercovitch] has written intellectual history at the highest level."—Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books

Table of Contents

Preface

pp. xi-xvi

1. Introduction: The Puritan Errand Reassessed

pp. 3-30

2. The Blessings of Time And Eternity

pp. 31-61

3. The Genetics of Salvation

pp. 62-93

4. The Typology of America’s Mission

pp. 93-131

5. Ritual of Consensus

pp. 132-175

6. Epilogue: The Symbol of America

pp. 176-212

Notes

pp. 213-232

Index

pp. 233-239
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