Classic biography of leading Massachusetts Bay Colony minister & President of Harvard College Increase Mather (1639-1723). "A book which will be indispensable to students of early American history."-Times Literary Supplement "It is a book to welcome and appreciate."-American Historical Review "The available sources have been used carefully, and the story is told with great literary skill."-The Sewanee Review " Murdock's book] opened the sluice gates to powerful streams of scholarship that in the next two decades revised our understanding of American Puritanism."-Philip F. Gura, in A Concise Companion to American Studies