John Winthrop

Book of the Day: John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father, by Francis J. Bremer. Publisher: Oxford University Press.

One of the more obscure figures in American history, John Winthrop may be one of the least famous people every American should know something about. Winthrop was part of the transition from the Old World to the New. With religious worldviews rooted in the more radical wing of the English Reformation, he came to embody attitudes which would be considered uniquely American.

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