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As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon

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Full Title:

As a City on a Hill: The Story of America's Most Famous Lay Sermon

Contributors:

By (Author) Daniel T. Rodgers

ISBN:

9780691210551

Publisher:

Princeton University Press

Imprint:

Princeton University Press

Publication Date:

4th January 2021

Country:

United States

Classifications

Readership:

Tertiary Education

Fiction/Non-fiction:

Non Fiction

Other Subjects:

History and Archaeology
Social and cultural history
Politics and government

Dewey:

973

Physical Properties

Physical Format:

Paperback

Number of Pages:

368

Dimensions:

Width 140mm, Height 216mm

Description

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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Author Bio

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.

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