John Winthrop America’s Forgotten Founding Father 1st Edition by Francis J Bremer ISBN 0195179811 9780195179811

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ISBN 10: 0195179811

ISBN 13: 9780195179811 

Author: Francis J. Bremer

John Winthrop’s effort to create a Puritan “City on a Hill” has had a lasting effect on American values, and many remember this phrase famously quoted by the late Ronald Reagan. However, most know very little about the first American to speak these words. 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 the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, 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 of the Stour Valley” in which he had been raised led him on his errand to rebuild such a society in a New England. In America, Winthrop would use the skills he had developed in England as he struggled with challenges from Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson, among others, and defended the colony from English interference. We also see the personal side of Winthrop–the doubts and concerns of the spiritual pilgrim, his everyday labors and pleasures, his feelings for family and friends. And Bremer also sheds much light on important historical moments in England and America, such as the Reformation and the rise of Puritanism, the rise of the middling class, the colonization movement, and colonial relations with Native Americans.
Incorporating previously unexplored archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic, here is the definitive portrait of one of the giants of our history.

John Winthrop recevied an honorable Mention, The Colonial Dames of America Book Award.

Table of contents:

Part 1: Heritage

1. Lavenham to London
2. Reformation
3. John and Adam

Part 2: Struggle
4. Youth
5. Turning Points
6. A Godly Magistrate
7. The Godly Embattled
8. The Decision to Migrate
Interlude: Christian Charity

Part 3: Errand
9. Passing Through Hell
10. The Best of Them Was But an Attorney
11. Relations with England
12. On the Fringe
13. War
14. Struggling to Hold the Center
15. New Trials and Disappointments
16. War Clouds and Concerns
17. Under Attack
18. Last Years

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