num_pages: 516
description: “Through this great scholarly effort of Yale’s Professor Morgan, we now have a unique access to the culture and intellectual life of 18th-century America. We also have for the first time a full biography of a remarkable colonial worthy, one which general readers can enjoy and scholars use with confidence.” ― Library Journal In this life of Ezra Stiles, president of Yale University from 1778 to 1795, the noted historian Edmund S. Morgan portrays a man who reflects the thought and temper of an age in New England and the middle colonies.
language: English
title: The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795
titlecomplete: The Gentle Puritan: A Life of Ezra Stiles, 1727-1795
genres: History, Biography
ratings_count: 8
publisher: W. W. Norton & Company