| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 90.1

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Book Review

Transgressing the Bounds: Subversive Enterprises among the Puritan Elite in Massachusetts, 1630–1692. By Louise A. Breen. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. viii, 292 pp. $45.00, ISBN 0-19-513800-7.)

Good books often remind us of history's extraordinary complexity. They show us the alternatives that eventually proved to be dead ends but that at the time presented real choices to the people who did not have the benefit of knowing how the story would turn out—the roads not taken. Louise A. Breen has written a very good book that tries to make sense out of an immensely complicated subject, dissent in Puritan New England. In doing so, she tantalizes us with a picture of what Puritan America might have looked like if it had followed Anne Hutchinson, John Underhill, Robert Keayne, and Daniel Gookin down their road instead of following John Winthrop, Simon Bradstreet, Thomas Shepard, and Increase Mather down theirs—the one that led to the New England we know so well.

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