Increase Mather: Leading Puritan Minister and Influential Colonial American Theologian

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Classic biography of leading Massachusetts Bay Colony minister & President of Harvard College Increase Mather (1639-1723).
ÒA book which will be indispensable to students of early American history.ÓÑTimes Literary Supplement
ÒIt is a book to welcome and appreciate.ÓÑAmerican Historical Review
ÒThe available sources have been used carefully, and the story is told with great literary skill.ÓÑThe Sewanee Review
Ò[MurdockÕs book] opened the sluice gates to powerful streams of scholarship that in the next two decades revised our understanding of American Puritanism.ÓÑPhilip F. Gura, in A Concise Companion to American Studies

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