Bibliograph

The gentle Puritan ;, a life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795, by Edmund S. Morgan ; published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va

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The gentle Puritan ;, a life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795, by Edmund S. Morgan ; published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

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mapsplatesportraits

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The gentle Puritan ;

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

by Edmund S. Morgan ; published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Va

Sub title

a life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795

Table Of Contents

The meaning of New England -- The Great Awakening -- Yale -- Infidelity -- Abigail -- Academic dignity -- The calling -- Newport -- A library of unwritten books -- Dreams of glory -- Puritanism enlightened -- The ministry -- Christian freedom -- Anglicophobia -- The edge of civil war -- Christian union and disunion -- The making of an American -- Uprooted -- Parson or president -- New Haven again -- Wartime president -- Peacetime battles -- The collegiate life -- The academic life -- The great reconciliation -- Private life of a president -- A Yale Jacobin

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