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Article: Morone, James A. Hellfire Nation: the Politics of Sin in American History.(Book Review)
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- History: Review of New Books
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- March 22, 2004
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Morone, James A. Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History New Haven, CT: Yale University Press 575 pp., $35.00, ISBN 0-300-09484-1 Publication Date: February 2003
In a lengthy but otherwise accessible volume, James Morone proposes a new reading of the origins of American liberal political institutions. Liberalism typically is seen as respecting a clear line between the public and private realms. Morone argues, however, that modern liberalism has emerged from public moral conflicts that rifled through intimate matters. Morone, a professor of political science at Brown University, locates the origins of this moral pattern with the Puritans of the ...