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The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop (The Library of American Biography)

21 reviews
Edmund S. Morgan

Little, Brown, 1958

An excellent review of Puritanism in Massachusetts and England
While this book is an excellent biography of John Winthrop, Massachusetts' first Governor, it is also an excellent review of the various types of Puritanism and the issues faced by Winthrop and others in their American experiment to found and develop a colony based on Scripture. Morgan gives a very balanced portrait of Winthrop: his genius and his foibles. While looking closely at the ...

Visible Saints: The History of a Puritan Idea
Edmund S. Morgan

Cornell University Press, 1965

American Slavery American Freedom: The Ordeal of Colonial Virginia

5 reviews
Edmund S. Morgan

W. W. Norton & Company, 1995

Brilliant
This is an excellent, in depth survey of Virginia?s colonial experience, with an emphasis on how the seemingly contradictory institutions of slavery and equalitarian republicanism developed simultaneously. Indeed, Morgan argues that Virginians? definition of freedom, and their very ability to establish a republican political system, rested upon the creation of African slavery. Morgan shows that ...

Benjamin Franklin (Yale Nota Bene)

45 reviews
Edmund S. Morgan

Yale University Press, 2003

Benjamin Franklin, Diplomat
"Benjamin Franklin" by Edmund S. Morgan is a spell binding study of Franklin's career in the diplomatic service. There are sections about his youth, scientific experiments, his flirtations with women, service in the Constitutional Convention, as well as other staples of the Franklin Legend, but these are "filler" to complete the story of this most interesting character. The focus of this ...

The Birth of the Republic 1763-1789
Edmund S. Morgan

The University of Chigaco Press, 1966

The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution

2 reviews
Edmund S. Morgan

The University of North Carolina Press, 1995

Informative, but Patriotic Bias
This work is worth the read simply because of the stature of the author. It remains the most comprehensive treatment of the Stamp Act crisis. Morgan's writing is, as always, highly readable. This interpretation disputes the Progressive interpretation that the colonists were acting merely for economic self-interest. Morgan argues that they genuinely believed in the constitutional principles ...

Inventing the People: The Rise of Popular Sovereignty in England and America

4 reviews
Edmund S. Morgan

W. W. Norton & Company, 1989

A Great Book to Understand our Forefathers
I'm barely a quarter of the way through the book. It's very dense in that there is so much to read and ponder within its covers. But what I have read shows that he has done his homework, and is presenting the material in a way that makes me feel like I was part of the popular debate occuring in the halls of government at the time. If you want to know why the constitution is written the way it ...

American Slavery, American Freedom

10 reviews
Edmund S. Morgan

W. W. Norton & Company, 2003

Excellent
This very well written and researched book is an effort to answer a single interesting question; why were so many of the great Founders slaveholding Virginians? To address this apparent paradox, Morgan investigates the history of colonial Virginia from its founding to the mid-18th century, reconstructing the evolution of the planter caste and their attitudes. Morgan shows that despite the ...

The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89 (The Chicago History of American Civilization)

16 reviews
Edmund S. Morgan

University Of Chicago Press, 1993

Concise Query into Ideology
One would think that justice cannot be done to the topic of ideology during the American Revolution in such a short book, but Edmund S. Morgan does the job quite well. In each chapter, you have an introduction to the various basic issues that confronted Americans during the Revolution and how the people grappled with the issues. Morgan does not waste words by going on and on about every minute ...

Roger Williams: The Church and the State

3 reviews
Edmund S. Morgan

W. W. Norton, 1997

The story of a very important man
Williams is shown as uncompromising in the pursuit of the correct way to live. Even when it was unpopular (even dangerous) Willams said what he felt was the truth -- and lived up to his own standards. He is too often overlooked and too important not to teach our children about.

The Puritan Dilemma: The Story of John Winthrop
Edmund S. Morgan

Little, Brown and Co., 1957

Birth of the Republic
Edmund S. Morgan

University of Chicago Press, 1967

In 1765 John Dickinson, of Philadelpiha, thought that American independence from Great Britain would bring "a multitude of Commonwealths, Crimes, and Calamities, Ceturies of Mutual Jealousies, Hatred, Wars of Devastation." Twenty-four years later he saw the United States adopt its present Constitution, which he had helped to draft. Here are the events of that remarkable quarter-century which tranformed thirteen quarrelsome colonies into a ...

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