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Съдържание:
  • Introduction : A nation with the soul of a church
  • pt. 1. The Puritan foundations of morality politics (1630-1776). Us : the city on a hill
  • Them : heretic, heathen, and witch
  • The Puritans become America
  • pt. 2. The abolitionist crusade (1800-1865). The wrath of God in Black and white
  • Abolition!
  • South : the pro-slavery argument
  • North : the ragged chorus of the Union
  • pt. 3. The Victorian quest for virtue (1870-1929). Purity and the woman's sphere
  • White slaves and the modern witch-hunt
  • Temperance : crucible of race and class
  • Prohibition and the rise of big government
  • pt. 4. The Social Gospel at high tide (1932-1973). The New Deal call to alms
  • Manifest destiny and the Cold War
  • The sixties
  • pt. 5. The Puritans roar again. Modern morals.