Volume 25, Number 21 & 22 · January 25, 1979
The Puritan You Love to Hate
By Edmund S. Morgan
Cotton Mather: The Young Life of the Lord's Remembrancer, 1663-1703
by David Levin
Harvard University Press, 360 pp., $16.50
Cotton Mather is one of those classic figures of American history who can't be left out. One has to explain him or explain him away, redeem him or denounce him. After almost three centuries it seems almost impossible to speak of him without taking sides. Why?
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