| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4 | The History Cooperative

Francis J. Bremer. John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding Father. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003. Pp. xviii, 478. $39.95.
The first governor and historian of the Massachusetts Bay Colony has been enshrined, debunked, and misquoted enough to count as one of "America's Founding Fathers." Yet John Winthrop has also been understood so inadequately as to be passed over when our nation's progenitors are celebrated. Francis J. Bremer's substantial, exhaustive new biography attempts with considerable success to set the record straight so that reclamation can begin.	1
Bremer's approach to Winthrop's life goes well beyond previous biographies, and his command of sources is surer than the scholarly grip of Puritanism's cultured despisers. Historians whose treatment of America begins with the Bay Colony (or another such place) can learn much from Bremer's planting of the Puritan errand firmly in the religious, political, economic world of Tudor-Stuart England. The roots of the Winthrop family ran deep in the godly soil of the Stour River Valley, whose way of life John Winthrop and other Puritans sought to recreate in New England. Bremer's Puritans crossed the Atlantic not so much to show England the ideal future of Protestant Christianity as, instead, to establish a place where the good life they had begun to know in England might be well grounded and protected and therefore flourish.	. . .

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