Andrew R. Murphy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Bruswick. He is the author of Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America, the co-editor of Religion, Politics, and the American Identity: New Directions, New Controversies, and the editor of The Political Writings of William Penn.

• Chapter 1 The American Jeremiad ; Part I: Three American Jeremiads ; Chapter 2 Puritan New England and the Foundations of the American Jeremiad ; Chapter 3 Decline, Slavery, and War: The Jeremiad in Antebellum and Civil War America ; Chapter 4 Taking America Back: The Christian Right Jeremiad ; Part II: The Jeremiad in American Culture ; Chapter 5 Competing Jeremiads ; Chapter 6 Constructing a Usable Past ; Chapter 7 The Jeremiad and the Culture Wars ; Chapter 8 The Past, Present, and Future of the American Jeremiad

a wide-ranging and thoughtful meditation ... This book deserves an honored place among the oeuvre of work by political scientists and historians on the jeremiad.

Andrew R. Murphy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Bruswick. He is the author of Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America, the co-editor of Religion, Politics, and the American Identity: New Directions, New Controversies, and the editor of The Political Writings of William Penn.

• Chapter 1 The American Jeremiad ; Part I: Three American Jeremiads ; Chapter 2 Puritan New England and the Foundations of the American Jeremiad ; Chapter 3 Decline, Slavery, and War: The Jeremiad in Antebellum and Civil War America ; Chapter 4 Taking America Back: The Christian Right Jeremiad ; Part II: The Jeremiad in American Culture ; Chapter 5 Competing Jeremiads ; Chapter 6 Constructing a Usable Past ; Chapter 7 The Jeremiad and the Culture Wars ; Chapter 8 The Past, Present, and Future of the American Jeremiad

a wide-ranging and thoughtful meditation ... This book deserves an honored place among the oeuvre of work by political scientists and historians on the jeremiad.

Andrew R. Murphy is Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University, New Bruswick. He is the author of Conscience and Community: Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America, the co-editor of Religion, Politics, and the American Identity: New Directions, New Controversies, and the editor of The Political Writings of William Penn.

• Chapter 1 The American Jeremiad ; Part I: Three American Jeremiads ; Chapter 2 Puritan New England and the Foundations of the American Jeremiad ; Chapter 3 Decline, Slavery, and War: The Jeremiad in Antebellum and Civil War America ; Chapter 4 Taking America Back: The Christian Right Jeremiad ; Part II: The Jeremiad in American Culture ; Chapter 5 Competing Jeremiads ; Chapter 6 Constructing a Usable Past ; Chapter 7 The Jeremiad and the Culture Wars ; Chapter 8 The Past, Present, and Future of the American Jeremiad

a wide-ranging and thoughtful meditation ... This book deserves an honored place among the oeuvre of work by political scientists and historians on the jeremiad.