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Remembering John Winthrop--Hawthorne's suggestion.(first governor of Massachusetts; Nathaniel Hawthorne)

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From: Perspectives on Political Science
Date: 20070101
Author:Holland, Matthew S.

Abstract: Influential but obscure, admired and loathed, utterly rejected by some on the left even as other liberals vigorously battle conservatives to make him an icon of party ideals, John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts, is unique in our civic consciousness. Quite unexpectedly, Nathaniel Hawthorne--one of American Puritanism's earliest, fiercest, and most brilliant critics--gives us reason to recover a picture of Winthrop that acknowledges his more admirable virtues and contributions without sparing condemnation of the Puritan political regime he did so much to ...