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“American popular culture, produced by the cultural descendants of Merrymount, offered something very different.”
“The Puritans were able to subdue the revelers of Merrymount, but they never erased the impulses the settlement embodied.”
“The Pilgrims of New England arrived with a similar imperial mission.”
“Her transformation from “heathen” to Christian Englishwoman was celebrated in England as proof that the colony was serving its purpose.”
“Morton himself recalled the celebrations with pride.”
“After destroying Merrymount, Puritan authorities waged systematic campaigns against drinking, sexuality, and pleasure.”
“Born and raised in Berkeley, California, Russell graduated from Antioch College and received a Ph.D.”
“That tension has shaped not only the nation’s domestic life but also its place in the world.”
“_______________________________ From Savior and Seducer: A Renegade History of the United States in the World by Thaddeus Russell.”
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“The mission of the settlers would not be local or provisional, nor simply accumulative, but universal, moral, and divine.”
“The norms first imposed by the early settlers in Virginia and New England eventually formed the basis of the formal culture of the United States of America.”
“In the formal culture of politics and foreign policy, the United States has clung to the original mission of the colonists.”
“By 1628, the renegade colony’s reputation and its growing population proved too much.”
“The first act of the English in America was neither to build shelter nor to scout for food.”
“They sought not merely to plant settlements but to establish ascetic societies in which every individual lived under the discipline of God.”
“Yet simultaneously, ordinary Americans produced popular cultures that undermined puritanical repression both at home and in the foreign countries where they spread.”
“Pleasure, in other words, has proved more destabilizing than military power.”
“Literary Hub » Holiness and Hedonism: On the Contradictory Duality of American Power Literary Hub Craft and Criticism Literary Criticism Craft and Advice In Conversation On Translation Fiction and Poetry Short Story From the Novel Poem News and Culture History Science Politics Biography Memoir Food Technology Bookstores and Libraries Film and TV Travel Music Art and Photography The Hub Style Design Sports Become A Member Lit Hub Radio The Lit Hub Podcast Awakeners Fiction/Non/Fiction The Critic and Her Publics Windham-Campbell Prizes Podcast Memoir Nation Beyond the Page First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing Thresholds The Cosmic Library Culture Schlock Reading Lists Book Marks Best Reviewed Books CrimeReads True Crime The Daily Thrill Log In Craft and Criticism Fiction and Poetry News and Culture Lit Hub Radio Reading Lists Book Marks CrimeReads Log In Holiness and Hedonism: On the Contradictory Duality of American Power Thaddeus Russell Explores the Legacy of the Nation’s Puritan Founding and Those Who Rebelled Against It Via Atlantic Monthly Press Thaddeus Russell October 22, 2026 On December 20, 1606, three small ships—the Susan Constant , the Godspeed , and the Discovery —slipped into the gray winter current of the Thames River.”
“To its Puritan neighbors, it was everything they feared.”
“They would be the world’s savior.”