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Neil C. Olsen

Neil C. Olsen

Neil C. Olsen is the author of the history books Pursuing Happiness: the Organizational Culture of the Continental Congress (2013), The End of Theocracy in America (2014), Two Hundred Years on the Green (winner in 2019 of the Laurence D. Fish Award for outstanding parish history), The First Yankee, Isaac Doolittle of New Haven (2022), and the history play God’s Spy: William Tyndale and the Book that Conquered England (2016).

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America Begins: How Connecticut’s Samuel Johnson Created America

“The great End and Business therefore of Philosophy, is to make us truly happy; and this is the End ultimately pursued through all the…

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