The Gentle Puritan. A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795 12+

🔖 Now available againf after being our of print for several years, this important biography of the early New England intellectual leader was greeted as a landmark in the history of the American mind" by Clifford K. Shipton when it appeared in 1962. Stiles lived at a critical time--the transition from the Reformation to the Enlightenment, which came suddenly in New England--and because of his position, his influence was great."