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As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon
By (Author) Daniel T. Rodgers
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
4th January 2021
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
History and Archaeology
Social and cultural history
Politics and government
973
Paperback
368
Width 140mm, Height 216mm
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 t
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Daniel T. Rodgers is the Henry Charles Lea Professor of History Emeritus at Princeton University. His many books include Age of Fracture, winner of the Bancroft Prize.