Marc Aronson: John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise.(Brief Article)(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)

From: The Horn Book Magazine | Date: July 1, 2004| Author: Sieruta, Peter D. | Copyright information

Marc Aronson John Winthrop, Oliver Cromwell, and the Land of Promise

197 pp. Clarion 5/04 ISBN 0-618-18177-6 20.00 g (High School)

Continuing the narrative begun in Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado (rev. 9/00), Aronson here charts a parallel history between seventeenth-century Great Britain and colonial New England, as represented by emblematic figures Oliver Cromwell and John Winthrop. Motivated by a shared religious belief that mankind was livin...