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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jan 2020

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Anton Jäger

      Hofstadter! Wilentz! There are probably no two names that make me grind my teeth the way they do. Naturally, I'm going to read the book.https://twitter.com/AntonJaegermm/status/1220695091771252748 …

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      Anton Jäger @AntonJaegermm
      The Library of America is reissuing a collection of Hofstadter’s classic essays, including his Anti-Intellectualism and Paranoid Style, in their usually gorgeous format. Edited by no one less than Sean Wilentz. pic.twitter.com/53jtln5Xzt
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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 24 Jan 2020

      Question for historians: in American Political Tradition, Richard Hofstadter says the Founding Fathers had "a vivid Calvinistic senses of human evil & damnation" -- this seems wrong to me. Wasn't Calvinism in abeyance by late 18th century? Weren't they Deists & Anglicans etc?

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        1. BargainNanny‏ @OpposibleThumbs 24 Jan 2020
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          Maybe the notion of original sin somehow merged into genocide?

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        1. Will‏ @IAmWillMarsh 24 Jan 2020
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          I’m sure there were some Presbyterians in there, but that was my understanding, yes

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        1. Nied‏ @B_Nied 24 Jan 2020
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          They were no more a monolith than people are today, but a lot of the big names we remember (like Franklin or Jefferson) were definitely of that persuasion.

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        1. Knut N. Figenschou 🇵🇸 🇺🇦‏ @knutepus 24 Jan 2020
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          Franklin grew up in a Calvinist household, so not super unlikely some of those ideas were around at the time ref. Weber.

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        2. M.N. Moore‏ @MNMooreofBoston 24 Jan 2020
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          And Scots-Irish.

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        1. Daniel Schultz‏ @pastordan 24 Jan 2020
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Nope. It was still strong in New England. Though John Adams eventually became a Unitarian, he was very much raised in that tradition. In any case, Calvin was part of the common intellectual heritage, apart from accepting his religious views.

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        2. Michael Scolare‏ @mksclr 24 Jan 2020
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          Calvinism was a major influence among the Founders, however some major figures were deist and the Virginians were Anglican influenced. But they were in and won a shooting war where it was considered patriotic to shoot Anglicans so they held it loosely.

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        3. Michael Scolare‏ @mksclr 24 Jan 2020
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          By the Second Great Awakening in the very early 1800s, Methodism was on the rise due to the sour memories of Anglicanism, IIRC

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        1. Luly B  🇺🇦  🇨🇺 🇺🇸 🇪🇸 🇪🇺‏ @EsmeLuluBean 24 Jan 2020
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