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Sacvan Bercovitch is the Powell M. Cabot Research Professor of American Literature at Harvard University. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, he is a former president of the American Studies Association and the general editor of the eight-volume Cambridge History of American Literature.This is a dazzling performance. It supplies conceptual links between phenomena where historians have often sensed a connection without being able to describe it adequately. . . [Bercovitch] has written intellectual history at the highest level."—Edmund S. Morgan, <i>New York Review of Books</i><br /><br />"<i>American Jeremiad</i> is truly a seminal book . . . the most illuminating study of the root paradigm of American culture yet written."—Victor Turner, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Virginia<br /><br />"One of the most exciting interpretations of American culture in recent decades."—Gustaaf Van Cromphout, <i>American Literature</i><br /><br />"Simply the most profound and persuasive work since the great books of the late Perry Miller."—William A. Clehsch, <i>Church History</i><br /><br />". . . an original and moving study that is of significance not only to the literary historian but to anyone concerned with the future of American culture. . . <i>The American Jeremiad</i> is a splendid book."—Jesper Rosenmeier, <i>Early American Literature</i>