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Article: Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History.(Book review)
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- March 22, 2006
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Hellfire Nation: The Politics of Sin in American History. By James A. Morone. (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003. Pp. xii, 575. $18.00.)
From time to time, historians take on a quest for a grand narrative that will explain American history. This study takes us back to where Perry Miller and others in the 1930s located the narrative--in the Puritan experience and its long legacy.
In Hellfire Nation, James A. Morone describes a long parade of people marching from the 1630s right down to the present. The reader witnesses witch-hunters at Salem, abolitionists, temperance crusaders and Prohibitionists, antievolutionists, eugenicists and nativists, ...