As a City on a Hill - The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon (Paperback)

From a Bancroft Prize–winning historian, the fascinating story of how an obscure Puritan sermon was remade into a founding document of American identity “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill,� John Winthrop warned his fellow Puritans at New England’s founding in 1630. More than three centuries later, Ronald Reagan remade that passage into a timeless celebration of American promise. How were Winthrop’s long-forgotten words reinvented as a central statement of American identity and exceptionalism? In As a City on a Hill, Daniel Rodgers tells the surprising story of one of the most celebrated documents in the canon of the American idea, revealing how nationalism encourages the invention of “timeless� texts to straighten out the crooked realities of the past.

General

Imprint:	Princeton University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2020
First published:	2018
Authors:	Daniel T. Rodgers
Dimensions:	216 x 140 x 32mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	368
ISBN-13:	978-0-691-21055-1
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	0-691-21055-1
Barcode:	9780691210551

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