in government was a force that Calvinists slowly retreated against.
And whether this book will restore Sherman to a more prominent
faith-built perch is also hard to say—he will need to elbow aside
Gouverneur and Richard Morris, George Mason, Robert Livingston,
and assorted Pinckneys and Lees. One thing we can say is that if
Oxford University Press had titled the tome Roger Sherman:
Calvinist Faith and the Creation of the American Republic, readers
would be better informed beforehand. As is, we have a book on
Roger Sherman that religious and revolutionary historians should
find useful.