The Puritan Ordeal

Andrew Delbanco

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$35.00 • £28.95 • €31.50

ISBN 9780674740563

Publication Date: 04/01/1991

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6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

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More than an ecclesiastical or political history, this book is a vivid description of the earliest American immigrant experience. It depicts the dramatic tale of the seventeenth-century newcomers to our shores as they were drawn and pushed to make their way in an unsettled and unsettling world.

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Awards & Accolades

Andrew Delbanco Is a 2011 National Humanities Medal Winner

1990 Lionel Trilling Book Award, Columbia University

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