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008			110304s2009 nyu 001 0ceng
010			_a2009000714
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050	0	0	_aE187.5 _b.M67 2009
082	0	0	_a973.2 MOR
100	1		_aForster, E. M. _q(Edward Morgan) _d(, 1879-1970)
245	1	0	_aAmerican heroes _b: profiles of men and women who shaped early America _c/ Edmund S. Morgan
260			_aNew York _b: W.W. Norton & Co. _c, c2009.
300			_axvi, 278 p. _c; 25 cm.
500			_aIncludes index.
505	0		_aThe conquerors. The conquerors -- Puritans, witches, and Quakers. Dangerous books -- The unyielding Indian -- John Winthrop's vision -- The Puritans and sex -- The problems of a Puritan heiress -- The case against Anne Hutchinson -- The Puritan's Puritan: Michael Wigglesworth -- The courage of Giles Cory and Mary Easty -- Postscript: Philadelphia 1787 -- the contentious Quaker: William Penn -- Ezra Stiles and Timothy Dwight -- Revolutionary leaders. The power of negative thinking: Benjamin Franklin and George Washington -- The end of Franklin's pragmatism -- The founding fathers' problem: representation -- The role of the Antifederalists -- The genius of Perry Miller.
520			_aReexamines the lives of bona-fide American heroes such as George Washington and Benjamin Franklin, and reevaluates the legacies of religious figures such as Anne Hutchinson, whose trial for heresy and banishment riveted the colonies in 1637, and unknown martyrs such as Mary Easty and Giles Cory, executed for practicing witchcraft.
650		4	_aHeroes _z-United States _v--Biography
651		4	_aUnited States _x-History _y-Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
651		4	_aUnited States _x-History _y-Revolution, 1775-1783
651			_aUnited States _v-Biography
942			_cMO
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