American Sermons (LOA #108): The Pilgrims to Martin Luther King Jr. (Library of America)The sermon is the first and most enduring genre of American literature. At the center of the Puritan experience, it continued in succeeding centuries to play a vital roleas public ritual, occasion for passion and reflection, and, not least, popular entertainment. The fifty eight sermons collected in this volume display the forms eloquence, intellectual rigor, and spiritual fervor. Ranging from the first New England settlements to mass media evangelism