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By Patrick Mullins

Dr. Jonathan Mayhew (1720–1766) was once, in accordance with John Adams, a “transcendental genius . . . who threw all of the weight of his nice status into the size of the rustic in 1761, and maintained it there with zeal and ardor until eventually his death.” He was once additionally, J. Patrick Mullins contends, the main politically influential clergyman in eighteenth-century the USA and the highbrow progenitor of the yankee Revolution in New England. Father of Liberty is the 1st publication to totally discover Mayhew’s political proposal and activism, understood in the context of his own studies and highbrow impacts, and of the cultural advancements and political occasions of his time. interpreting and assessing his contributions to eighteenth-century New England political tradition, the ebook demonstrates Mayhew’s serious contribution to the highbrow origins of the yankee Revolution.

As pastor of the Congregationalist West Church in Boston, Mayhew championed the foundations of common rights, constitutionalism, and resistance to tyranny in press and pulpit from 1750 to 1766. He did greater than the other clergyman to organize New England for disobedience to British authority within the 1760s—and should still, Mullins argues, count along such framers and fomenters of innovative notion as James Otis, Patrick Henry, and Samuel Adams. although many commentators from John Adams on down have said his value as a popularizer of Whig political ideas, Father of Liberty is the 1st prolonged, in-depth exam of Mayhew’s political writings, in addition to the cultural procedure in which he engaged with the general public and disseminated these rules. As such, whilst the e-book restores a key determine to his position in American highbrow and political background, it illuminates the that means of the Revolution as a political and constitutional clash trained via the spiritual and political rules of the British Enlightenment.

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