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The Wine of the Puritans

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  • Van Wyck Brooks, 1947
    In Van Wyck Brooks

    …he published his first book, The Wine of the Puritans (1908), in which he blamed the Puritan heritage for America’s cultural shortcomings. He explored this theme more thoroughly in his first major work, America’s Coming-of-Age (1915), which made a strong impact with its thesis that the Puritan duality that separated…

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