{"product_id":"john-winthrop-americas-forgotten-founding-father-9780195149135","title":"John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe preeminent figure of early New England  John Winthrop was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. More than anyone else  he shaped the culture of New England and his effort to create a Puritan \"City on a Hill\" has had a lasting effect on American values. In John Winthrop  Francis J. Bremer draws on over a decade of research in England  Ireland  and the United States to offer a superb biography of Winthrop  one rooted in a detailed understanding of his first forty years in England. Indeed  Bremer provides an extensive  path-breaking treatment of Winthrops family background  youthful development  and English career. His dissatisfaction with the decline of the \"godly kingdom of the Stour Valley\" in which he had been raised led him on his errand to rebuild such a society in a New England. In America  Winthrop would use the skills he had developed in England as he struggled with challenges from Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson  among others  and defended the colony from English interference. We also see the personal side of Winthrop--the doubts and concerns of the spiritual pilgrim  his everyday labors and pleasures  his feelings for family and friends. And Bremer also sheds much light on important historical moments in England and America  such as the Reformation and the rise of Puritanism  the rise of the middling class  the colonization movement  and colonial relations with Native Americans. Incorporating previously unexplored archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic  here is the definitive portrait of one of the giants of our history.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45789674438709,"sku":"ByrdShop_0195149130","price":21.01,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780195149135.jpg?v=1784694346","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/john-winthrop-americas-forgotten-founding-father-9780195149135","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}