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    PICKING FIGHTS WITH PURITANS

    Mar 26, 2019 3 minutes

    “In America, they have a feast to celebrate the arrival of the Pilgrims,” English essayist G.K. Chesterton wrote of Thanksgiving. “We should have a feast to celebrate their departure.” Had the Puritans quit Plymouth and sailed home, the Narragansett might well have inaugurated an annual celebration, motivation for which Warren, author of American Spartans, amply chronicles.

    is iconoclastic without being simplistic. Warren easily could have delivered a 17th century take on . Instead

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