Perry Miller and the Historians.

Assesses the contribution made to the understanding of the ideas that animated and guided the Puritans and their New England successors. The author considers Miller to have been a true genius, not only in the field of intellectual history and in his work with students, but more particularly in the writing of a series of books, "the like of which had not been seen before, the record of a mind that craved reality and reached for it through history....