Mises Review
Author:
David Gordon
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Mises Review 13, No. 2 (Summer 2007) AMERICANISM: THE FOURTH GREAT WESTERN RELIGION David Gelernter Doubleday, 2007, x + 229 pgs. David Gelernter starts with an undoubted fact and uses it to construct a bizarre fantasy. The origins of America have been profoundly religious; in particular, the Puritans affected American thought in pervasive