Brooks Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams, challenges the reverent histories of his native state. He argues that the Puritan clergy ruled early Massachusetts as a theocracy, and he traces its battles with the Antinomians and Quakers, the Cambridge Platform, and the slow struggle by which the colony freed itself from priestly control.
A combative, still provocative revision of the Puritan story, reissued with a long new preface by its author. Download the free EPUB.