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        Via @pannapacker, literary scholar & great historian of the "American jeremiad," Sacvan Bercovitch, has died. obits.dignitymemorial.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Sacvan-Bercovitch&lc=7323&pid=173415578&mid=6229087
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      Re: LT, Bercovitch argued that most American reformers, from jeremiads to abolitionists, call on nation to return to original ideals. +
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    Bercovitch would likely hear same note struck in politicians' reax to #TortureReport today. Language about this not being "who we are," etc.
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      RIP Sacvan Bercovitch, whose work on history of rituals of American nationalism and Puritanism taught, and teaches, much about our own time.
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