Increase Mather: The Foremost American Puritan

Classic biography of leading Massachusetts Bay Colony minister & President of Harvard College Increase Mather (1639-1723). “A book which will be indispensable to students of early American history.”—Times Literary Supplement “It is a book to welcome and appreciate.”—American Historical Review “The available sources have been used carefully, and the story is told with great literary skill.”—The Sewanee Review “[Murdock’s book] opened the sluice gates to powerful streams of scholarship that in the next two decades revised our understanding of American Puritanism.”—Philip F. Gura, in A Concise Companion to American Studies