George McKenna's The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism is reviewed here by John Gray, author of Black Mass: Apocalyptic Religion and the Death of Utopia. Gray concludes:
This sense of being divinely chosen to save or redeem humanity, which was an integral part of Puritan thinking more than three centuries ago, is still at the heart of American identity today.
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