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Harvardinates

The truth, only the truth, nothing but the truth - Harvardinates - The Life and Times of John Leverett, first secular President of Harvard - got its first review today (below). Story of the earliest days of Harvard Law, before law was even a profession. John Leverett made it through those days and brought it into the modern era.
















Harvardinates
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CND89PZS

Goodreads Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5984223531

Harvardinates

Harvardinates (Har-VAR-di-NAH-tays): The Life and Times of John Leverett, first secular President of Harvard.

This guy was the same age as Cotton Mather, and went to school with him, both to Boston Latin School, and to Harvard. Cotton's father Increase was President of Harvard in the 1690s, before the witch trials, and hired John to be a tutor. But Increase got called away and in his absence Cotton got carried away up in Salem. John, our hero, said nothing; Increase was his boss. He was writing Logic textbooks in Latin at the time; he later became President of Harvard, much to Cotton Mather's chagrin.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CND89PZS

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Harvardinates

Harvardinates (Har-VAR-di-NAH-tays): The Life and Times of John Leverett, first secular President of Harvard 1708-1724

Paperback (Amazon) $7.10 + postage
On Kindle $2.99
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On ACX (coming)

This book is a biography of John Leverett (1662-1724), first secular President of Harvard, who kept Harvard from becoming a Puritan Divinity School when that was what Cotton Mather and orthodox Puritans wanted. It was a very divided time in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and Mather had seen his unquestioned support fade after the witch trials of 1692. The story gives an overview of his illustrious grandfather, Governor of the Colony, a father who had trouble making a living, and deaths in the family, one after another, as was usual in a time of smallpox and other diseases, hard winters, inadequate water, and various other problems. Leverett designed Massachusetts Hall, which survives today as Harvard's oldest building, and holds its President.

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