In this absorbing book, George McKenna ranges across the entire panorama of American history to track the development of American patriotism. That patriotismshaped by Reformation Protestantism and imbued with the American Puritan belief in a providential errand has evolved over 350 years and influenced American political culture in both positive and negative ways, McKenna shows. The germ of the patriotism, an activist theology that stressed collective...
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